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#1 (**permalink**) 01-16-2008, 04:29 PM

Please bear with me I am a UNIX luddite.
Can I make a connection between a Mac G5 Tower and a Sun computer such
as a Netra T1 AC200 or SunFire 280R?

I am running Mac OS 10.4.9 and I have Apple's utility programs
"Console" and "Terminal".

Thanks for any direction.

Alex Rishea
Voice (416) 744-6323
FAX (416) 744-3343
andromeda@sympatico.ca

#2 (**permalink**) 01-16-2008, 04:29 PM

On Apr 15, 9:09 pm, "Alex R" <androm...@sympatico.ca> wrote:
> Please bear with me I am a UNIX luddite.
> Can I make a connection between a Mac G5 Tower and a Sun computer such
> as a Netra T1 AC200 or SunFire 280R?
>
> I am running Mac OS 10.4.9 and I have Apple's utility programs
> "Console" and "Terminal".

Sure. What sort of connection?
You can rsh or rlogin to the Sun from a console or terminal.
(Ssh too, if you have ssh going on the Sun.) If you go to the
Mac's System Preferences / Sharing panel and turn on the
appropriate bits, you can ssh / ftp / whatever from the Sun
to the Mac. There's ftp and secure variants (sftp, scp).
You can even set up NFS between the two.

Karl

#3 (**permalink**) 01-16-2008, 04:29 PM

On Apr 15, 8:09 pm, "Alex R" <androm...@sympatico.ca> wrote:
> Please bear with me I am a UNIX luddite.
> Can I make a connection between a Mac G5 Tower and a Sun computer such
> as a Netra T1 AC200 or SunFire 280R?
>
> I am running Mac OS 10.4.9 and I have Apple's utility programs
> "Console" and "Terminal".
>
> Thanks for any direction.
>
> Alex Rishea
> Voice (416) 744-6323
> FAX (416) 744-3343
> androm...@sympatico.ca

You haven't provided us with enough information. Do you just want as
terminal session? In which case a simple

ssh hostname.unixmachine.net

will work just fine as ssh is included Mac OSX and can be run from
terminal window. You could also start X11 from the Applications folder
and use X11 to open a window on the remote host

#4 (**permalink**) 01-16-2008, 04:29 PM

Alex R wrote:
> Can I make a connection between a Mac G5 Tower and a Sun computer such
> as a Netra T1 AC200 or SunFire 280R?

Does a Mac G5 have serial ports? It doesn't seem so.

You probably need a USB to Serial interface at the Mac side, and a cable
to connect it to the Sun console port (a standard Cisco light-blue
DB9-RJ54 cable should work, or the light-blue rollover RJ45-RJ45 with
the DB9-RJ45 converter plug).

Then the terminal program can connect to the serial console of the Sun.

For network connections, check the other answers on your post.

--
Alex.

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