Re: ProDOS, OS X and Netatalk

[Toinet <antoine.vignau@laposte.net>]

On 30 jan, 20:29, A2Aviator <a2avia...@gmail.com> wrote:
> This whole server thing is bordering on the verge of ludicrously.
>
> After fooling around with routers, both instigated by NetATalk itself
> and external devices (GatorBox), the IIgs now sees absolute squat.
>
> Aside from the server being a linux box this time around, many many
> years, many many networks, all this stuff has just worked.  Gatorbox
> not required.
>
> If I want files off a PowerMac, ShareWay worked just fine. EtherWave,
> LocalTalk via an LC III that had LocalTalk Bridge on it, Marinetti
> with same LC III and Vicom Sluceway serving up MacIP. Again, via
> Ethernet card, EtherWave or "Telephone Talk" localtalk node jerk off
> clone connector. Didn't matter a bit, or byte.
>
> Pa-the-tic.
>
> I've swapped wires, changed out switches, added hubs, isolated stuff.
> The fact that the PowerMac sees it all, the Mac Portable sees it all -
> through the same physical cabling, switch, router, etc - tells me it's
> not a link issue.  Even the same transceiver on the IIgs, stuck to the
> PowerMac - it's fine.
>
> There was a specific point to setting all this up. it's causing quite
> a backlog in progress.
>
> Some folks have echoed similar issues where it just plain does not
> work, others say it works just fine.
>
> I don't have any of the "modified" AppleShare stuff on the IIgs. All
> the years, I've never had to use any of that. Since I can't even get
> Ubuntu to show up in the server window to choose from, there's no
> point.
>
> It's all behind a firewall, I don't care about plaintext, I don't have
> the secrets to the Death Star here. I don't care.

3.5 HDD is your friend :-)

Stay calm. Breathe and relax,

antoine