Re: AppleTalk to Ethernet bridge software for Mac?

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

>> I have an
>> Assante Com 3 card that I believe is an ethernet card.
>> It looks like one anyway.  It has an RJ45 connector
>> and two light on it.  What I don't understand is that it
>> has another connector on the back of it. (like a port of
>> some sort)
>
>Yeah, I am not techie enough to tell you what kind of port that is.  It may
>be a BNC connector, but I assume you mean the kind of port that looks a bit
>like a PC joystick port.  It's some kind of Thick ethernet connector or
>something - I have lots of working network cards with such a port - having
>it there doesn't hurt anything.

that would be an AUI port if it's a DB15, I think also called
thick-ethernet. Horrible to look at though, I prefer coax or UTP. Stick with
the RJ45 setup, they are way more common these days.

<snip>
>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 !!!

The same can't be done for Mac floppy's though.

>> 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.

Mark