Re: LocalTalk Network, ProTERM, printing

[shack@onyx.southwind.net (Randy Shackelford)]

Tim Schmidt (tschmidt@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu) wrote:
: I have a simple LocalTalk network set up between my Apple IIGS and
: mac IIsi.  On the IIGS, I have a modem in the modem port, and the
: network cable (printer cable, actually) in the printer port.  On the
: IIsi, I have the network cable in the printer port, as it must be (damn
: inflexible macs).  Two questions:

: 1)  When I run ProTERM on the IIGS (ProTERM configured for no printer),
:     it cannot access the shared mac drive.  This is to be expected, I
:     guess, since it's a P8 program.  However, when I quit ProTERM, from
:     then on, the network is infinitely slow!  It takes 5-10 minutes
:     just to get the drive's directory.  Why?

Of course you can access server volumes with ProDOS 8 apps. You have to log
on and off under GS/OS though. Unless you happen to have the 8 bit log on and
log off apps from the workstation card software that is. Your server volume
must have a name legal to ProDOS though, as must all directories and files
you want to use.
The second problem is cured with a one byte patch to the PT3.CODE0 file which
I got and used ages ago. No such problem for me. Maybe if I dig it up and post
again someone can add it to the FAQ.

: 2)  What sucks about this setup is that I can't print.  I have one of
:     those switchboxes so that my IIGS and IIsi can share the printer.
:     Can I flip it around and have the mac connected to *both* the IIGS
:     and the printer, so I can switch between the network and the printer?
:     Doesn't seem likely, but it's worth a shot.

Can't help out too much there, I have a laserwriter and an IW II with network
card for printers myself and don't have to go through any switchbox rigmarole
to print.
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Randy Shackelford                                 I was internet
shack@southwind.net                               when internet wasn't cool