Re: GS Appletalk to Mac 8.1

[Randy Chevrier <rchevrier@aol.com>]

Well, that did the trick. I can't figure it out since I have all the privileges
set properly, as far as I can see, to log in under another name. Go figure!

Thanks Randy for all your help!

Randy Chevrier

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Randy Shackelford wrote:

> Randy Chevrier <chev@bigfoot.com> wrote:
>
> : I'm trying to network my trusty (and dusty) GS (Rom 3) to my G3/233 with
>
> : system 8.1 or my Performa 638 with System 7.5x.
>
> : I've set up appletalk on Macs before and I know you have to set sharing
> : up on
> : the volumes them selves. I've done that and can network the two Macs.
>
> : But when I try to get on the Mac server with the GS the hard drive
> : volume is
> : dimmed in the dialog box.
>
> : I've tried System 6.0 and 6.0.1 with no changes.  Any ideas?
>
> The permissions changed in 8.0. It used to be see files, see folders, and
> make changes. Now it's read only, read/write, and no access or something to
> that effect. There's supposed to be a mapping from old to new but I've never
> monkeyed with it. So you could have munged permissions. I'm not totally up on
> the new setup. For several reasons, I'm still using 7.6.1 instead of 8.
>
> Here's the trick I use to access shared disks trouble free without worrying
> about permissions: you set the owner name in the file sharing control panel,
> formerly known as sharing setup in OS 7. If you use the same name to log on
> to file sharing as the owner name, you get full access to all disks, without
> setting privileges etc. I'd try that and that'll tell you if it's a permission
> thing.
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