Re: AppleTalk on IIGS - Questions...

["M. Pender" <mpender@hotmail.com>]

Dave Althoff Jr <dalloff@gcfn.org> wrote in message
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> AppleTalk is enabled on the G4.  The G4 can see both the LC-III and the
> IIgs, but of course there is no server for the IIgs.  Also, while the IIgs
> can see a shared directory on the G4, it cannot write successfully to it.
> For my file sharing, I use the LC-III as a file server visible to both the
> G4 and the IIgs.
>
> There are some annoyances, most particularly that I can't get the G4 to
> automagically mount the server on startup, though GS/OS does it very
> nicely.  That, and neither OS-X nor GS/OS sets filetypes correctly on the
> server, though OS-X can be told to ignore filetype, and I have File-a-Trix
> on the IIgs to fix 'em there.  Understandable, since MacOS, ProDOS, and
> OS-X all have different filetype specs.
>

I've heard (research, research, research...) that Mac OS version 7.5.3 is
the last OS to properly support Appletalk as used in the IIgs.  There are
some bits in the packet that have been re-used.  I don't think you will be
able to get your G4 working (properly) with the IIgs because I doubt that
7.5.3 will run on a G4.

- Mike