Re: AppleTalk to Ethernet bridge software for Mac?

["Tim Haynes" <trhaynes@yahoo.com>]

> >1. Turn on CD-ROM.
> >2. Mount CD-ROM (i.e. insert it in the drive).
> >3. Boot up Mac.
> >4. Select "Sharing" options for CD-ROM.  It can be shared!!
>
> Excellent, I'm glad it worked for you finally, but I don't have this
problem
> with sharing CD's that are not in the drive at boot up. I can put any CD
in
> and share it after boot up. This may be an OS issue or CD drive issue, I
> don't know as I only have one CD drive that I can use, and it's a caddy
> burner (Sony CDU-926S).

I suspect it's an OS issue.  I think I have 7.1 or some such on that Mac - I
will have to check later and maybe upgrade to 7.6.  The CD drive is an
old/weird one.  A NEC Intersect CR-73, I think.  I actually needed drivers
for it, even though it's SCSI!  That's the nice thing about standards -
there are so many to choose form (paraphrasing Tanenbaum).

> >Wow - very cool.  I can only get the 8.3 filenames on the Mac (and
therefore
> >the IIgs) but at least I can get at it!!  So far I have used this
technique
> >to get at the SHK archives for a number of demos and expanded them to
disk.
>
> What format is the CD, perhaps an ISO9660 limitation. I can see full
naming,
> but then perhaps there is an explanation for that too that I'm not aware
of.
> I do have HS.FST in my GSs, which is to read ISO9660 CD's on a CD-ROM on
the
> GS, but I don't think that's anything to do with an Appleshare vol.
> I guess the other possibility is your Mac OS, I am using 7.6.

Yes, it's an ISO9660 format CD.  I would have liked to have burned the CD as
HS but my PC burning software has no such option.  It's an EIDE burner, so I
can't transfer it to the Mac (and, with an SE/30, why would I want to!!).
Any ideas for PC burning software that will do HS formatted CDs?

> >The network is only about 230kbps but then again so is the single-speed
CD
> >ROM!  I'm happy...
>
> I wish I could get that speed, or are you quoting the book. My tests seem
to
> indicate about 100Kbps effective throughput on phonenet LocalTalk cabling.

I'm quoting the book, and thinking back, I kind of doubt that 230k is what
I'm getting.  I'll have to run some tests myself and try various phone cords
to find the one with the least "noise".

> >soon I'll have my NuBus ethernet card and I can try
> >hooking the Mac up to my Lan and then bridging across it so my IIgs can
see
> >my Win2K machine with AppleShare services!
>
> Yep, and you may still have this 8.3 problem, but I can see long filenames
> on my PC, because it's just another AppleShare vol. OK some transfers WILL
> require renaming the file to ProDOS 15 char limit, but it sure beats that
> 8+3 crap.

Man, I hope not (the 8.3 problem).  It's a pain... then again, I can live
with it if it means I can see my 60 gig HDD on my Win2K machine!

> >  But I think you are right
> >about the finder not fitting on a 3.5" network startup disk.  My guess is
> >that you need to launch some AppleShare-aware app that will let you copy
> >files from the 3.5" drive across to the Mac.  That way you can
(painfully)
> >transfer GS/OS over and then maybe run it after the 3.5" network startup
> >disk boots up?  I don't know, though.  I seem to recall that on the IIgs
> >side, I couldn't even see the Appletalk network from the network startup
> >disk - there was no way to "log on" to the Mac.
>
> I could set up the Mac from my other AppleShared GS, but knowing what to
do
> is the problem now. I'll have to re-visit the book, damn !!! :) And so far
I
> have found the book to be less than accurate with it's 6.0.1 information,
so
> I use it as a hint book rather than a technical reference :)

Which book are you referring to?  I have a few technical manuals that came
with my IIgs - the previous owner must have been really hardcore!

Cheers, and thanks.
Tim