Re: AppleTalk on IIGS - Questions...

[Wayne Lafreniere <wplafreniere@lynx.bc.ca>]

I've not seen the rest of this thread but,

Contrary to Mike's missive, I'm running Mas OS 8.6 on a 8600/300Mhz which works
fine with all my Macs and a IIGS. I've just finished installing Appleshare
Server 2.01 on a scavenged IIci and have succesfully booted the IIGS over the
network from the Appleshare server, strange boot screen (like a Mac thermometer
bar),  with a hard drive, with a floppy boot and with no floppy drives at all.

Wayne Lafreniere


"M. Pender" wrote:

> Dave Althoff Jr <dalloff@gcfn.org> wrote in message
> news:bkmtq1$8ke$1@acme.gcfn.org...
> ...
> >
> > 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