Having a Mac OS X machine and one NeXTStep machine in a (virtual) network, what can i do to connect them to each other?
I'd like to have a shared folder or file sharing with Mac OS X (as it works with two macs, where i can log into the other machine as a user and access the users's files).
VNC connection would also be great!
At the moment i have no idea how to access my NeXTStep machine. It doesn't show up in Mac OS X's network folder.
You may see i'm a total beginner. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks in advance!
Andreas
Well, for the last 10 years or so I've been connecting my Rhapsody/Mac OS X Server/Mac OS X systems to my NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP systems via RBrowser (
http://www.rbrowser.com/) (an FTP client that is modeled after the workspace manager).
I've always wondered if something more could be established, but not enough to spend any real time looking for a better solution. In fact there are some solutions in my networking setup that I'm not totally sure how they work. When I have my SGI IRIX systems active on my network using Xinet's K-AShare (which enables my Mac OS/Mac OS X systems to see my IRIX system via AppleTalk), I can also see and access my Mac OS X Server 1.x system via AppleTalk as well (from my Mac OS/Mac OS X systems). I'm not sure why it works, but it does.
I've considered looking into one of the AppleTalk solutions for NEXTSTEP (
http://www.wizards.de/~frank/next_cap.html) to see if I might get the same functionality... but it was never a pressing enough need to take the time to attempt setting it up.
I don't know if any of that is helpful, but that is about the sum total of my experience on the subject. :oops:
In my experience, RBrowser is the most convenient way to connect a NeXT machine to Mac OS X. I use NFS to share Mac OS X folders to my IRIX machines and I guess you can use it on NeXTSTEP/OPENSTEP/Mac OS X Server 1.x machines too, but configuring network shares in those 3 OS's is much harder (and unintuitive) than in IRIX.
What about setting up a NFS server on MacOSX and exporting the directories to be accessible. In NeXT you then only have to do a NFS mount.
After all that's how we do it in our company with a linux server and a NeXT VM running as NeXT-server using shared user directories from the linux machine.
Don't ask me how to set up NFS on MacOSX though since I don't have access to that system but since it's core is a unix system it should have a NFS server in additio to AppleTalk.