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

[Phil Beesley <pb14@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...

> 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