Re: [NTLK] remote access

From: Michael Blazer (m.blazer_at_utoronto.ca)
Date: Tue Sep 03 2002 - 20:14:26 PDT


on 2002/08/10 8:58 PM, Victor Rehorst at victor_at_newtontalk.net wrote:

>
> On Sun, 11 Aug 2002, Sean Warburton wrote:
>
>>
>> I asked this the other night but only got one reply so I'll try again.
>>
>> Is it possible to synch the Newton by using a modem to modem connection.
>
> No. NCU doesn't know how to answer.
>

I'm hesitant to disagree with Victor on anything technical (hence the 3-week
delay in responding), and my memory on this is pretty fuzzy because I
haven't used modems on desktops very much in recent years, but ... I think
this should be possible with a Mac.

In MacOS 7 & 8 days there definitely was a way to establish an AppleTalk
network over a modem-to-modem connection between two Macs. I think you used
something called ARA (Apple Remote Access) Server. I'm pretty sure it's
still around in some form in OS9. At some point it was rolled into the
Apple PPP client and was bundled with the OS, but I believe it was still
called Remote Access (appropriately to the subject of this thread) and was
still capable of answering the phone and establishing an AppleTalk
connection. I don't know if this function still exists in OSX.

So, if your Mac dials into a host Mac running ARA, and if the host is also
running NCU, and if NCU is set to listen on AppleTalk, and if your Newton
has an AppleTalk connection with the client Mac (either via serial,
localtalk or ethernet), then I think the NCU on the host Mac would talk to
the Newton hanging off the client Mac. As long as there's a live AppleTalk
connection (which ARA takes care of), then NCU shouldn't care what medium
AppleTalk is running over, whether LocalTalk, ethernet, or modem, or any
combination thereof.

I'm sure I'll be corrected if this is wrong. :-)

(BTW, what is the "connect via modem" selection in the Dock app for anyway,
if not for talking to NCU via modem? Darn, now I've got myself all
confused.)

Michael

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