Re: OS X, Appletalk and Apple II

["Roger Johnstone" <rojaws@mac.com>]

> Bart <you@somehost.somedomain> wrote:

>> Has anyone yet set up their home net with a Mac as Localtalk Bridge, to
>> another Mac running OS X  and signed into the OS X mac from their GS, mapping
>> a drive from Finder to the desktop?

In article <1fapmpg.1e37onv8l9ps0N%dempson@actrix.gen.nz>,
dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) wrote:

> Not yet.  I haven't had my IIgs set up recently, and I don't have a convenient
> machine on which to run LocalTalk Bridge, since my SE/30 stopped working.
> There is one significant problem: out of the box, Mac OS X only supports
> acting as an AFP server over TCP/IP, not AppleTalk.

I knew about that.

> There is a "use_appletalk" property in NetInfo, under /config/AppleFileServer,
> which is 0 by default.  I haven't tested it yet to see whether you get serving
> over AppleTalk simply by setting this property to 1.

I didn't know about that! I just tried it and it _mostly_ works. An iMac
running Mac OS X 10.1.3, connected via ethernet to an old PowerBook 5300
running LocalTalk Bridge, which is connected via LocalTalk to my IIgs.

The IIgs can now mount and access the public folder on the iMac, it works
perfectly for reading files from there. However, when trying to write a file
(I set up a folder with guest read and write privileges) the IIgs returns an
error $53 (invalid system call parameter). The file is created on the Mac
but has a length of zero.

Oh well, half-working is a lot better than not working at all!

--
Roger Johnstone, Invercargill, New Zealand

Apple II - FutureCop:LAPD - iMac Game Wizard
http://homepage.mac.com/rojaws
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