Subject: Re: [netatalk-admins] AppleShare on IP
From: Alistair Riddell (alistair@watsons.edin.sch.uk)
Date: Fri Mar 20 1998 - 14:38:25 EST
If you are using AppleShare client 3.7 or newer and TCP-IP is enabled and
the server you connect to claims to support AFP over TCP then the client
will try to use AFP over TCP. If that fails then it will revert to
AppleTalk.
MacOS8 comes with version 3.7.2 and 8.1 uses 3.7.4.
On Fri, 20 Mar 1998, David Foster wrote:
> At 01:29 PM 3/19/98 , a sun wrote:
> > If I have clients running OS8, and the latest asun version of Netatalk,
> > will I be using the fast or slow version of AppleTalk by default??
> >
> >you get switched to tcp/ip by default. you can change that by using
> >the appleshare client setup program if you want.
> >
>
> Slight correction to that, I'm pretty sure standard OS8 will connect with
> AppleTalk by default, OS 8.1 (which you should upgrade to if you've got
> OS8) will connect via tcp/ip by default. tcp/ip is also the default if you
> upgraded the ATalk client on an OS8 machine.
-- Alistair Riddell - BOFH IT Support Department, George Watson's College, Edinburgh Tel: +44 131 447 7931 Ext 176 Fax: +44 131 452 8594
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