Re: Connecting GS and Mac via AppleTalk

[gberigan@cse.unl.edu (Greg Berigan)]

dempson@atlantis.actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) wrote:

>If you have a Mac running System 7 with "File Sharing" enabled, it is
>possible to log onto the Mac from the IIgs and access the hard drive,
>but you still have to boot from a local system disk, complete with the
>necessary software to support the network connection.
>
>This is the main problem, as the addition of this software to the
>system disk requires more space than is available on an 800k disk.  To
>be able to fit it all, you'll have to remove Finder from the disk.

However you can store the Finder and the contents of the FinderExtras
folder on the Mac's hard drive and put the Control Panel "SetStart" on
your boot disk.  You can then configure it to automatically launch
Finder from the hard drive on startup.  (You'll also want it to
automatically log into the server by setting the proper option in the
"AppleShare" Control Panel".)

Also, by putting IR in that FinderExtras folder, you can then load any
extra FinderExtras, NDAs, or CDAs by double-clicking them.  However, I'd
prefer a program which would load anything else, including Fonts and
Tools, while storing them on the server.  Even just something that will
automatically load NDAs and CDAs from a second disk on startup would be
nice.

IR is available at:

	ftp://ftp.cco.caltech.edu/pub/apple2/addons/init/ir201.shk

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