Subject: Re: [netatalk-admins] how to identify a machine by its number?
From: Andrew Solmssen (solmssen@ca.metsci.com)
Date: Mon Dec 08 1997 - 16:26:42 EST
I'm fairly certain that this is copyrighted and not publicly
distributable. However, there is a shareware piece on InfoMac called
Trawl that does much the same thing, and is distributable.
---- Andrew
On Mon, 8 Dec 1997, Tom Watson wrote:
> Many people have discussed methods for finding out how to find a particular
> user, given an AppleTalk address (zone/node). If you go back a ways, there is
> a tool that Apple provided called "InterPoll" which can tall anyone who has a
> Mac connected to the network the things that respond to NBP. The version I've
> used (version 1.0.1, dated in 1989) works quite well with OS version 7.6.1,
> using open transport (I assume it would work in Mac OS 8).
>
> I don't know how available it is publically, but it was a fairly common tool
> used back in those days. Before version 7 of MacOS, you needed 'responder' to
> publish the name of the Mac (now displayed in Sharing Setup).
>
> I'd provide a copy, it isn't that large, but I'm unsure of the copying
> restrictions, or how this list would accept a binary posting. The program
> itself isn't that big (130k).
> ----
> Tom Watson Generic short signature
> tsw@cagent.com (home: tsw@johana.com)
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