Win2K Services for Mac does support AFP over TCP/IP.
See these links:
http://www.microsoft.com/mac/products/win2ksfm/default.asp#sfminfo
http://www.macwindows.com/Win2000.html#SFM
Priscilla
At 10:40 AM 8/20/01, Dave Caplinger wrote:
>You have 3 alternatives:
>
>1) Change the server: Make the Win2K server talk AppleShare/IP (File
>Services for Macintosh does not do this; it only talks AppleTalk, but
>you can purchase 3rd party products to add AppleShare over IP
>functionality.) Then, your Mac clients will have to enter the IP
>address of the server in their Chooser.
>
>2) Change the client: Make the Macs talk NetBEUI over TCP/IP (such as by
>adding "DAVE" to each and every Mac that needs to talk to that server)
>
>3) Change the network: tunnel AppleTalk inside of IP so it will pass
>through the PIX. You'll have to terminate the tunnel end points on
>AppleTalk-capable routers on the internal networks off of the "inside"
>interface of each PIX (since the PIX knows nothing about AppleTalk).
> Those endpoints will have to have static address translation through
>the PIX, the PIX will have to be configured to allow GRE traffic to
>them, and in the router configs you have to specify the *public* (i.e.
>translated) IP address of the remote endpoint
>
>Naturally there are pros and cons to each. If your needs are strictly
>related to file service access (and not printing!) to the Win2K box at
>the far site, option 1 is probably your best bet. If you have a very
>small number of client Macs, then go with option 2. If your needs are
>more complicated (for example, the Macs would like to print to the
>remote site, or access other AppleTalk services as well) then go with
>option 3, which means that you don't have to modify any of the servers
>or clients.
>
>Without getting into a religious debate about the merits of AppleTalk,
>just keep in mind that if you do tunnel, consider what impact this will
>have on your VPN bandwidth. (Clearly, there will be *some* impact
>regardless of whether you view that to be good or bad. :-)
>
>Good luck!
>
>- Dave
>
>Jim Bond wrote:
>
> >Hello,
> >
> >I have 2 offices connected each other with PIX running
> >VPN. office1 has Mac users, office2 has a w2k server.
> >Is there a way to have office1 Mac users access
> >office2 w2k server? I already enabled File Service for
> >Macintosh on the w2k server.
> >
> >I was told Appletalk must be enabled for Mac users to
> >access w2k server, so should I use Appletalk AND
> >TCP/IP or TCP/IP only?
> >
> >Thanks in advance.
> >
> >Jim
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