Re: Apple IIgs to Win2K over Locaktalk Bridge... help?

["Pidge" <pj_nield@hotmail.com>]

"Tim Haynes" <trhaynes@yahoo.SPAMBGONE.com> wrote in message
news:v3C87.100172$2V.23222809@news3.rdc1.on.home.com...
> > Q2. What PC-MAC file sharing program are you using, and has it been set
up
> > with which drives are shared and which users can connect ? Did you say
it
> > was called "Macfile" ?, I have not heard of that.
>
> I'm actually using the AppleTalk Services that come with Windows 2000
> Server.  To configure the file sharing for AppleTalk Services, you have to
> (at least initially, it seems) use a command-line tool called "macfile"
that
> ATS installs.  I guess you use PC MACLAN?  Is that a commercial tool?

</LURK>
Under Windows NT 3.5/3.51/4.0/2000/XP(maybe!), you need to enable "MacFile"
on a NTFS volume on your WinNT box to be able to present AppleShare folders
to your Apple Machines.  This marks that folder or entire volume as holding
those Forked Files ;) that Mac uses.  (aside - NTFS is capable of using that
kind of file natively (a single file with multiple streams or forks in it),
but nobody apart from Apple has actually bothered to use them, as far as I
know)

You can get to this under 3.5/3.51/4.0 by running WinFile (good old File
Manager :-).
If you have installed Windows 2000, you'll need to use the command line
:-(...

I recommed going to Start/Help, and going to the Index and looking up
macfile...  Here's some info on the "macfile volume" command:

Macfile volume examples
---------------------------------

To create a volume called US Marketing Statistics on the local server using
the Stats directory in drive E: that cannot be accessed by guests, type
      macfile volume /add /name:"US Marketing Statistics"
/guestsallowed:false /path:e:\stats

To change the volume created above to be read only, require a password, and
have a
maximum number of five users, type
      macfile volume /set /name:"US Marketing Statistics" /readonly:true
/password:saturn /maxusers:5

To add a volume called Landscape Design on the server \\Magnolia using the
Trees directory in drive E: that can be accessed by guests, type
      macfile volume /add /server:\\magnolia /name:"Landscape Design"
/path:e:\trees

To remove the volume called Sales Reports on the local server, type:
      macfile volume /remove /name:"Sales Reports"

Hope this helps

Cheers

Pidge
mailto:pj_nield@hotmail.com

2 x Apple II GS ROM3 (not up and running yet) + 2x 5.25 , 2 x 3.5 floppiers
+ Gatorbox CS (HELP!)
2 x C-64 + 2 x 1541 + Action Replay Mk V
C-128D
BBC Model B
System 80 + Expansion Unit + Percom Disk Doubler (TRS-80 M1 clone)

<LURK>