Re: Apple IIgs to Win2K over Locaktalk Bridge... help?

["Tim Haynes" <trhaynes@yahoo.com>]

"Phil Beesley" <pb14@le.ac.uk> wrote in message
pb14-250720011335086949@mac180.cc.le.ac.uk">news:pb14-250720011335086949@mac180.cc.le.ac.uk...
> In article <D7y77.71691$2V.15728047@news3.rdc1.on.home.com>, Tim Haynes
> <trhaynes@yahoo.SPAMBGONE.com> wrote:
>
> > Hey gang,
> >
> > Okay, as many of you know, I am trying to get my IIgs to talk to my
Win2K
> > machine (which is running AppleTalk services) by bridging across an
SE/30.
> > The SE/30 is running MacOS 7.1, is LocalTalk'd to the IIgs and plays
fine
> > with it.  The SE/30 EtherTalks to the Win2K machine, and plays fine with
it.
> > The only strangeness about the SE/30 <--> Win2K connection is that when
I
> > share a volume with "macfile" on Win2K and define the share as allowing
> > guests, I don't get a guest option on the SE/30 login screen (the Guest
> > option is there, but it's disabled).
>
> My own setup at home is similar to yours -- I use an SE/30 as a
> LocalTalk to Ethernet bridge to connect to a Windows 2000 server.
>
> I have zero problems logging in to W2K from an SE/30 with a similar
> system spec. I suspect that your problem is that the Guest account is
> disabled by default under W2K -- re-enable it in the Computer
> Management MMC (or Active Directory Users and Computers if you are
> acting as a Domain Controller). Apologies in advance if you've already
> tried this...

Wow - I can't believe I didn't try that myself.  With the guest account
enabled, now my SE/30 can log in as a guest!  Thanks for the tip.  :)

> > Now, on the IIgs, in the AppleShare control panel, ONCE I had my Win2K
> > machine show up, but never since.  When I selected it, I got some
message
> > about login incompatibility (to be expected, since it wouldn't let me
log in
> > as a guest), and ever since I cannot get the Win2K machine to even show
up
> > on the IIgs.
>
> I have never managed to get the W2K server to appear in the IIgs
> AppleShare control panel, although the SE/30 is always accessible. It
> just ain't visible. I have a few thoughts on this, so I'll spend a few
> nights in with a copy of _Inside AppleTalk_ and a packet sniffer.
>
> Phil

Thanks, Phil.  I still cannot get the W2K server to appear either.  Very
frustrating, because it showed up once the first time I tried using the
LocalTalk bridge software from Apple, and it has never shown up since.  I'm
certain that somewhere GS/OS wrote some information to disk saying that the
W2K machine should be excluded from AppleShare lists, but can't find where
it might have written that.

Anything you could dig up would really help!  It looks like Mark Cummings
has figured out how to get W2K to show up on a IIgs, so I'm going to bug him
a bit... :)

Thanks,
Tim