Re: Networking between Irix and Osx

From: Dominik Schlütter (schlu-do_at_gmx.net)
Date: 08/06/04

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    Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2004 16:32:17 +0200

    Hi,

    Tom <&&&@£££.net> (?) wrote:

    > [on the Mac]
    >
    > In the sharing options, i have shared all the services available.

    It's prabably better to reduce that to the services you really need.
    Things like "Internet Sharing" doesn't make any sense when this task is
    already handled by your Router ... .

    > Now the net should work but i don't know how to sharing files between
    > the two computer:

    Right now it won't work, as the MacOS Filesharing uses AFP (over TCP/IP)
    - I don't think the SGI can handle that out-of-the-box. The easiest way
    to configure sharing via NFS on the Mac is a nice little App called 'NFS
    Manager' <http://www.bresink.de/osx/NFSManager.html> (it's Shareware,
    15,- EUR).

    If you really do know MacOS X you can insert the necessary entries
    directly into the NetInfo-Database, it's also passible to import a fstab
    with static mounts.

    > [...] and on that window i write the G5 ip. Now it searches for several
    > seconds but the list remains empty.

    Yes, that's because you don't have a NFS Share on your Mac yet.

    > on the mac i go on the network panel on the finder and under "servers"
    > there is only the "g5.local" (the local host of the mac) and i don't know
    > how to find on the mac the irix shared resources and vice-versa.

    I don't like the "Network"-Panel. You can look for NFS-Shares on your
    SGI with abovementioned 'NFS Manager' or you try <command>-<k> ("Connect
    to Server ...") in the Finder. You get a small window where you can type
    something like "nfs://192.168.1.4/name/of/export" - though I didn't test
    it.

    And as MacOS X is a UNIX, you can alway try something like 'sudo mount
    nfsserver:/exported/path /private/mnt' in 'Terminal.app'. This won't be
    alive after a reboot.

    Bye,

    Dominik.

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