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A/UX Networking

Cory5412

Daring Pioneer of the Future
Staff member
An interesting thought/project/idea has popped into my head recently. Since A/UX is a unix system, there is probably some kind of network authentication system, and the ability to mount remote folders for a "network home directory" setup.

Has anybody seen this done, read about it or done it themselves with A/UX 3? At some point I'd like to get a few A/UX boxes I think, to try it out.

I've done it with NT4, Server2003/XPPro, and Mac OS X 10.3/10.4, and it's my understanding that it can be done with Linux, *BSD, Solaris, et al. (Most of those I just haven't had the time to work with yet.)

 

paws

Well-known member
A/UX probably has NFS, most Unices does.

I'd also expect it to have AppleShare, being an Apple server.

 

scott

Well-known member
A/UX has NFS client and server capabilities... You could use autofs to automount the home directories through NFS, and YP (NIS) to handle user-authentication. I've done this under Solaris, but never tried it with A/UX. It should work though! [:)] ]'>

 

macdownunder

Well-known member
I'd also expect it to have AppleShare, being an Apple server.
"AppleShare Pro" was an add on product for A/UX, it did not come with it standard. But as mentioned NFS and FTP etc all work.

Regards,

Macdownunder

 

foetoid

Well-known member
You could probably do some sort of ass-backward install of Samba and get the results you desire when working with Wintel and OS X machines. AppleShare Pro may support home directories, but I don't remember. That was many years ago that I fiddled with that, and when I sold all of my A/UX stuff on eBay, I made the ridiculous mistake of not making copies before shipping it all off.

 

Cory5412

Daring Pioneer of the Future
Staff member
Well, I don't need my A/UX network to be compatible with networks of newer computers, so whatever comes with A/UX would be fine. NFS would be fine, I'd just have to learn how to do it in A/UX, not too difficult if there is online documentation.

I'd eventually like to do NIS/YP or whatever's available on modern Solaris and Linux too, that one'll be easier since I can do that in virtual machines on the iMac and/or ThinkPad.

 

paws

Well-known member
I think NIS is being/has been phased out in favour of the LDAP directory services that Apple are also using as per 10.4.

 

Cory5412

Daring Pioneer of the Future
Staff member
Yeah, APple even completely removed NetInfo in 10.5, so a modern Solaris/Linux install would almost certainly use LDAP, although I did notice that in Solaris 10, NIS and NIS+ are available.

 

porter

Well-known member
You could probably do some sort of ass-backward install of Samba and get the results you desire when working with Wintel and OS X machines.
Given that OSX is UNIX based, NFS would be more appropriate for that.

Seems a shame to burden a little A/UX box with samba.

 
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