I can get anything to talk to anything! :-)

[salfter@salfter.dyndns.org (Scott Alfter)]

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I finally succeeded at getting my IIGS to talk to my Linux server.  I think
the problem I ran into in the past was that netatalk wasn't configured to
support the types of authentication that GS/OS needs.  Since I wiped the
server config when I upgraded the hardware, I hadn't yet put netatalk back
on.  I grabbed v1.4b2 and the Apple II support patch for it.  After much
editing of patchfiles and header files, I got it to where my Mac would talk
to it again over Ethernet.  I then went to work on getting the Mac to talk
to the server through a Cayman GatorBox CS that I had bought a short time
ago.  I nuked the config on that and got it running as a simple bridge.  I
think that it needs to be started before netatalk...but while I didn't get
the Mac to see the server through it (no big deal as the Quadra 610 speaks
Ethernet natively), I did see that the server was showing up in the
EtherTalk zone in the GS's AppleTalk cdev.  I tried logging in and mounting
a share...where this wouldn't work before, it went right through this time!

No modification to GS/OS was needed.  File sharing works, with some issues:

1) Even if a share should be auto-logged-in at restart, it isn't.  You have
   to go to the AppleTalk cdev and mount the share manually every time.
2) The auxiliary-type information seems to be flipped when a file is
   created.  I tried setting a ShrinkIt archive to the correct types
   ($E0/$8002); it came up with auxtype $0280 instead.  Telling Davex to set
   the auxtype to $0280 set it to the proper $8002.  This would appear to be
   a big-endian/little-endian disagreement someplace.  (The ironic bit is
   that both machines are little-endian...the server's a homebrew dual
   P!!!-500 running Linux 2.4.14 or thereabouts.)
3) While GS/OS has no problems accessing any file on the server, ProDOS 8
   will only access stuff that's named in all-uppercase with the same
   limitations that ProDOS imposes (15-char max, first char alpha,
   subsequent chars alpha/num/dot).  A file on the server named foo-bar.txt
   (or even just foo.txt) won't be accessible, but FOO.TXT or FOO.BAR.TXT
   will work.

Now I need to share a printer.  The Win2K machine has a Lexmark Optra Color
40 hanging off of it.  I could have a spooler on the server connect to it
via SMB, or I could track down a network print server for the printer and
have the spooler connect to that.  Once that's done, hopefully the GS will
be able to print to it with the LaserWriter driver.  (Yes, the printer groks
PostScript.  I think Lexmark has a driver for MacOS at least.  My only print
options for my Apples right now are a temperamental StyleWriter or an
Imagewriter that, while it still works fine after more than 16 years, is
noisy, slow, and not up to modern print-quality standards.)

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