Subject: Re: Mac Name
From: Casey Bisson (cbisson@oz.plymouth.edu)
Date: Thu Feb 03 2000 - 13:08:47 EST
The name given in the FileSharing control panel is it's AppleTalk name,
and has no technical relation to the IP Name.
Similarly:
In windows, you must "name" the machine in two locations in the Network
control panel. Once (in the TCP/IP protocol config) to set its IP Name,
and again (in the "Identification" tab) to set its "Windows Networking"
name. The second name has no technical relation to the first.
Reasons:
AppleTalk (EtherTalk, LocalTalk, TokenTalk) is an entirely separate
protocol from TCP/IP. They both co-exist on the same physical wires,
neither is dependent on the other (except when IP is done over
AppleTalk, called Kinetic IP, or when AppleTalk is tunneled in IP;
neither is common). The result is that MacOS fully supports both
protocols, and gives appropriate configuration options for both. This
can all become confusing, as services that were formerly AppleTalk
only--Printing, AppleShare file services--are done over IP.
"thomas.riewe" wrote:
> and what's the stuff in the file-sharing control-panel good for ?
>
> just not fully convinced,
> whilst knowing that in fact macs do rev. lookups,
> thomas (R)
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