Re: appletalk on the apple IIe or IIgs ---> appletalk on a "modern" mac

[Gregory Weston <uce@splook.com>]

In article <1169054835.526848.246830@51g2000cwl.googlegroups.com>,
 "Kirk Mitchell" <kirkmitchell@gmail.com> wrote:

> > A cheaper, if more cumbersome, solution is to use an older Mac as the
> > bridge. Any Mac with ethernet & serial ports should work. You can use a
> > printer cable to connect the IIgs to the old Mac if you don't have
> > Localtalk adaptors and install Localtalk Bridge on it.
> > Your G4s will have to be booted into 0S9, as I don't believe you can
> > connect to an OSX server (though it will show up in the chooser).
> > -s
> 
> Yeah, if you want to connect an older Mac to an OSX server, you'll have
> to use a version of Appletalk that can do AppleTalk IP.  I think that
> came out with later Systems 8 to 9.

AppleShare over IP showed up in the OS distrib with Mac OS 9, but was 
available as an add-on for years' worth of earlier releases.


> However, those only work to
> connect to 10.3.9 at most on the OSX side.  10.4+ won't connect.

That should not be the case. 10.4 is where AppleShare over AppleTalk 
disappeared (it went away earlier, but came back), but over IP is still 
supported.

G

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