Re: AppleTalk to Ethernet bridge software for Mac?

["Mark Cummings" <figjams@primus.com.au>]

>Hi Mark!
>
>Well, I took your advice and tried this out - it works!  Here is a synopsis
>of what I was doing wrong/right:
>
>Wrong way:
>1. Turn on CD-ROM
>2. Boot up Mac.
>3. Mount CD-ROM (i.e. insert it in the CD ROM drive).
>4. Select "Sharing" options for CD-ROM.  It says this volume can't be
>shared.
>
>Right way:
>1. Turn on CD-ROM.
>2. Mount CD-ROM (i.e. insert it in the drive).
>3. Boot up Mac.
>4. Select "Sharing" options for CD-ROM.  It can be shared!!

Excellent, I'm glad it worked for you finally, but I don't have this problem
with sharing CD's that are not in the drive at boot up. I can put any CD in
and share it after boot up. This may be an OS issue or CD drive issue, I
don't know as I only have one CD drive that I can use, and it's a caddy
burner (Sony CDU-926S).

>Wow - very cool.  I can only get the 8.3 filenames on the Mac (and
therefore
>the IIgs) but at least I can get at it!!  So far I have used this technique
>to get at the SHK archives for a number of demos and expanded them to disk.

What format is the CD, perhaps an ISO9660 limitation. I can see full naming,
but then perhaps there is an explanation for that too that I'm not aware of.
I do have HS.FST in my GSs, which is to read ISO9660 CD's on a CD-ROM on the
GS, but I don't think that's anything to do with an Appleshare vol.
I guess the other possibility is your Mac OS, I am using 7.6.

>The network is only about 230kbps but then again so is the single-speed CD
>ROM!  I'm happy...

I wish I could get that speed, or are you quoting the book. My tests seem to
indicate about 100Kbps effective throughput on phonenet LocalTalk cabling.

>soon I'll have my NuBus ethernet card and I can try
>hooking the Mac up to my Lan and then bridging across it so my IIgs can see
>my Win2K machine with AppleShare services!

Yep, and you may still have this 8.3 problem, but I can see long filenames
on my PC, because it's just another AppleShare vol. OK some transfers WILL
require renaming the file to ProDOS 15 char limit, but it sure beats that
8+3 crap.

>  But I think you are right
>about the finder not fitting on a 3.5" network startup disk.  My guess is
>that you need to launch some AppleShare-aware app that will let you copy
>files from the 3.5" drive across to the Mac.  That way you can (painfully)
>transfer GS/OS over and then maybe run it after the 3.5" network startup
>disk boots up?  I don't know, though.  I seem to recall that on the IIgs
>side, I couldn't even see the Appletalk network from the network startup
>disk - there was no way to "log on" to the Mac.

I could set up the Mac from my other AppleShared GS, but knowing what to do
is the problem now. I'll have to re-visit the book, damn !!! :) And so far I
have found the book to be less than accurate with it's 6.0.1 information, so
I use it as a hint book rather than a technical reference :)

Mark