Re: Introducing A2SERVER

[Sean McNamara <sean@macassist.com.au>]

Hi Ivan,

I spent about an hour at my office yesterday setting this up between my Rom
01 IIgs and my MacBook Pro with an iPrint LT PhoneNet bridge - once I
realised I had to move my CFFA3000 from Slot 7, things went swimmingly. I
used one of the What Is The IIgs? System images and converted the Disk Copy
format System Install images to .2mg files using imgutnew.exe from XGS so I
could install the networking stack on the IIgs via the CFFA3K. Overall,
pretty painless.

Only one minor point (since the download link issue has already been
addressed): the password is wrong on the page at
<http://appleii.ivanx.com/a2server/a2server_access.html>, where it says:

"To do this, you may need to find out A2SERVER's IP address. Log into
A2SERVER (default username/password is user1/apple), and type "showip" and
you will be shown the address."

The password is, of course, "apple2".

Otherwise, the site and VM image is a most excellent resource for the Apple
][ community - thanks, Ivan!

Sean "europlus" McNamara

Ivan X <ivan@ivanx.com> wrote:
> Hello world,
> 
> I am very happy to announce A2SERVER, which is a ready-to-go, easy-to-
> use file and network boot server for Apple II client computers. It's
> basically Netatalk running in a virtual machine, without the
> configuration pain. You can read all about it at: http://appleii.ivanx.com/a2server/
> 
> I'm expecting that issues will come up, so consider this a soft-
> launch, and send me an email if you have questions or comments. I'd
> like to make A2SERVER as easy to use as possible and have the web site
> be as useful as possible so I'd welcome the feedback.
> 
> Thanks to Steven, Geoff, Antoine, and all the others here who have
> been so helpful in answering my questions and helping me put this
> together.
> 
> Cheers,
> Ivan.