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Localtalk gateway/bridge
* Crossposted to MACSYSOP : Macintosh Sysop's Conference
* Crossposted to APPLE : International APPLE Echo
I am using Apple's free LocalTalk Bridge 2.1, as found here:
http://kbase.info.apple.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/kbase.woa/wa/query?type
=id&val=60290&KCID=262407&sid=anonymous|1293608
Anybody have any experience with this? Maybe the setup I'm running isn't
kosher, as I'll explain, or maybe I'm just doing something wrong.
The software is installed on a Power Mac I have behind me. The Mac's Ethernet
port is goes into a 10/100 hub that I have, and the LocalTalk connector I have
in the thing connects back to an Apple IIgs machine and nothing else.
On the Ethernet side, I have a Windows NT box that's running Services for
Macintosh, and I am 100% certain that that box is not configured to route
AppleTalk (as the documentation for the Bridge says this is a no-no, and I can
confirm that the software does not work if the NT box IS routing AppleTalk. :).
If I go to the IIgs system, I can access the shared Power Mac, so I know things
are workign on the LocalTalk side. If I go to the Mac, I can see the Macintosh
volume I've created on the NT server. A sees B, B sees C.
I'd like A to see C, though, so I could simply drop my Apple II files onto the
NT Mac volume. Anybody know if this is doable? Is there a better way to do
this? Right now, the end result is that I have the best of both worlds on the
Mac, where I can talk to both topologies without a lot of muss or fuss, but I
still have to do a little bit of wheeled-chair multitasking in order to bring
files from the Apple II over to the PC.
Thanks for any suggestions...