Re: AppleTalk to Ethernet bridge software for Mac?

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

> >the IIgs and the Mac.  Share the Mac HD, log into it as a guest from the
> >IIgs, and voila - my Mac hard drive is on my IIgs desktop.  Cool stuff!
> >Sadly, I cannot do the same with the Mac's CD ROM drive - it cannot be
> >shared like the HD can.  :(
>
> you definately can share the CD, but you must place the CD in the drive
the
> select it and go to the sharing... option again. You have to do this every
> time you startup the Mac because a CD does not normally stay in the
> computer, hence it's sharing is always switched off each time it is
ejected.
> This is a neat way to get a CD onto your GS desktop even if you don't have
a
> SCSI card. OK, it will be an AppleShare vol, but who cares, it's there
isn't
> it !!!

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!!

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

Thanks!

> >> I don't have a hard drive on my IIgs.
> >> Is it possible to create an appletalk boot disk on an
> >> 800k drive?
> >
> >Yes.  The Installer for 6.0.1 has such an option, which I tried once.  It
> >made a GS/OS boot floppy that booted into the Prodos 16 Launcher, which
> >helped me not at all.  I couldn't figure out how to get it to run
anything
> >from the Mac.
>
> when you find out I'd like to do this too on a IIeGS with no HDD. So far
my
> attempt to make the 3.5" network startup disk hasn't worked. I think I
have
> the 3.5" disk correct but just not the Mac side. I'm not sure what to load
> onto it, possibly GS/OS ? or the Finder at least. From what I've read, the
> Finder won't fit on the 3.5" network startup disk.

Sadly, I do not know myself.  I probably won't be experimenting with this
either.  Not until my Vulcan crashes anyway. ;)  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.

Good luck!
Tim