Re: [WinMac] Hardware Comm Center? (was: PC users remote access to FileMaker server on G3)

Leonard Rosenthol(leonardr[at]lazerware.com)
Mon, 26 Apr 1999 07:10:08 -0500

At 11:50 PM -0500 4/25/99, Jason Sellers wrote:
>At 06:42 PM 4/25/99 -0500, you wrote:
>>FileMaker Pro uses 3 different types of networking, but each database can
>>only use one type at a time (set in the preferences dialogue).
>
>I could be wrong, but I think one client uses BOTH Appletalk and TCP/IP on
>the same databases to serve to Macs and PCs... anyone??

        A CLIENT can use both protocols to access different
databases, but it may be true that a SERVER can only serve one
protocol - that I don't know.

>What the client is really looking for is
>a solution to allow: dial-out Internet access, fax out capabilities, dial
>in access to network including FileMaker databases (PCs included, at least
>for FileMaker). What they have is an all-Mac network with an older version
>of ARA, and two phone lines with modems for each connected to a Mac running
>Portshare Pro.

        Why not connect the modems to an ISP full time (or at least
on demand) and use something like IPNetMonitor or Vicom's Internet
Gateway to provide bi-directional Internet access. For fax, they may
be SOL since I don't think anyone makes a Mac-based fax server - but
I could be wrong.

>There was a slick little product from Global Village (Global Village or
>Global One Comm Center or Comm Server - something like that) that was
>basically a hardware solution that would do it all. I've only heard good
>comments about it - but it's been discontinued. They still have some on
>the shelf but it's not supported.

        The company is required to support it, though they may not
update it. It was indeed a good product and may serve your needs.

>It seems that this would be a good
>product for the SOHO market, and apparently they sold quite a few of them.
>But we can't find anything similar out there. Has anyone heard of a
>similar product or solution??
>
        Not for the Mac :(. All the players in the market (Farallon,
Global Village and Shiva) all got out...

LDR

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