Trouble creating an AppleShare ProDOS volume

["Frank Townsend" <ftownsen@iamdigex.net>]

Thanks David!!

I don't know why I wasn't seeing that.  I just BYE'ed from Basic and tabbed
to the local drive, to ShrinkIt, and pressed return which ran ShrinkIt which
could then see the network volume properly.

I have two additional issues:

1)  While I can copy a ProDOS application (ShrinkIt e.g.) from a local drive
to the server and can see it in the ProDOS directory tree, when I select it,
it fails to run and just reloads the view of the same tree.  Is that
expected behavior, that I can copy but not run ProDOS apps copied to the
AppleShare Mac volume?  I thought it might be normal behavior, so . . . .
(on to question (2))

2)  I have a second drive on the Mac which I partitioned as a ProDOS volume
and a HFS volume.  When I start up the server, I get a message as follows:

    "The volume "PRODOS' could not be prepared for use with AppleShare"

So I went back and tried to selectively install the AppleShare Apple II
Setup v.2.2 on to the ProDOS volume.  This gets me the message that "The
selected disk PRODOS" is damaged.  Please select a different disk."
Reinitializing, repartitioning etc. fails to fix this, and there is nothing
damaged about the disk.  Still, to eliminate hardware as a cause, I subbed
in another working hard drive and got the same result.

I'm not sure what any of this means, but assume that if I am to run ProDOS
apps from the server , I should have a functioning shared ProDOS volume on
the server which I do not seem to be able to create.

Any help would be appreciated.


Frank


"David Empson" <dempson@actrix.gen.nz> wrote in message
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> Frank Townsend <ftownsen@iamdigex.net> wrote:
>
> > "David Empson" <dempson@actrix.gen.nz> wrote in message
> > > > My MacLC/IIe card will boot from an AppleShare server, to a Basic
> > > > prompt.  I would like to copy files from the Apple IIe to the
server,
> > > > but none of the usual utilities running on local drives on the
LC/IIe
> > > > seem to be able to see the volumes on the server.
> >
> > > You have to boot from a disk which is set up correctly with the ATINIT
> > > file that hooks the network interface into ProDOS.  This should be
done
> > > automatically if you are booting from a server, but won't work with
> > > booting from a local volume unless you copy the appropriate ATINIT
file
> > > onto your startup disk.  For local booting, you also need the other
> > > AppleShare utilities such as NAMER.II, CHOOSER.II, LOGON and LOGOFF.
> >
> > I was booting from the server then, at the Basic prompt typing IN#5
which
> > boots ShrinkIt.
>
> Ah - in that case you've just rebooted on a local disk, which will
> disconnect you from the server.
>
> If you want to remain connected to the server, you need to run a program
> selector (my QUITTER.SYSTEM might be OK, though I don't know how well
> Birds Better Bye handles server volumes) and launch ShrinkIt from there,
> rather than booting from another disk.