  PATHWORKS for PCs and Macintoshes? 
 The Question is:
 
we have a cluster of 3 VAX 4100's running
VMS 6.1.  Our layered products include
pathworks for Mac's.  One of our vax in
the cluster is configured as a Macintosh
router and serves Macintosh disk volumes.
 
our clients are a mix of Windows '95 and
Mac G3's.  We also have three MS NT 4.0
servers acting as file/print services for
our Windows '95 clients and as a DHCP server
for our entire campus.
 
we have been using a product called Chameleon
to access Macintosh volumes on the VAX via
Windows '95.
 
our goal is to consolidate the cluster by ugrading the hardware to (2) Alpha
1200's
running Open VMS/AXP 7.2.  During this upgrade we would like to introduce
the MS NT servers into the picture (cluster?).  Also, we would still use the
new Alpha's to act as our Macintosh router and provide Macintosh volume
support.
 
My question(s) are....
 
1.) Will VMS 7.2 provide Macintosh router/volume
support via a Pathworks upgrade?
 
2.) We want to use our new Alpha's as data
storage for our Windows '95 clients.  Is this
possible without the use of Chameleon (CopsTalk?).
 
3.) We are using DCPS for print services on the VAX, File and Print services
for printing on
the Windows NT.  Macintosh can use the VAX printers via the Pathworks
product.  It is very confusing when you want to add a printer to the
network.  we end up creating two queue's, one on the VAX for Mac users and
one on the NT Servers for Window '95 user
s.  Can this be integrated using VMS 7.2?  One print queue
for all?
 
Thanks in advance,
 
Russ Leathe
Gordon College
russ@gordon.edu
 
 
 The Answer is:
 
  1: PATHWORKS for OpenVMS (Macintosh) V1.3A will not run and is not
  supported on OpenVMS 7.2.
 
  2: Yes, using either Advanced Server for OpenVMS V7.2 or PATHWORKS
  for OpenVMS (Advanced Server) V6.0B.
 
  3: No. See point 1. What you should look at is turn on Services for
  Macintosh on the Windows NT Server then the answer is yes -- but
  Windows NT is providing that.
