Re: AppleTalk to Ethernet bridge software for Mac?

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

"william strutts" <wrstrutts1@home.com> wrote in message
news:_3F37.7651$JN6.1491450@news1.rdc1.mi.home.com...
> Tell me how this works if you get it running.  I might have
> to find parts to get my IIsi running if it does.

Don't worry - if I get it working, the only people I'll be able to share my
joy with are the fine folks on this newsgroup.  :)

> I have an
> Assante Com 3 card that I believe is an ethernet card.
> It looks like one anyway.  It has an RJ45 connector
> and two light on it.  What I don't understand is that it
> has another connector on the back of it. (like a port of
> some sort)

Yeah, I am not techie enough to tell you what kind of port that is.  It may
be a BNC connector, but I assume you mean the kind of port that looks a bit
like a PC joystick port.  It's some kind of Thick ethernet connector or
something - I have lots of working network cards with such a port - having
it there doesn't hurt anything.

> How do you get the IIgs and the Mac to communicate
> via Appletalk?

I was lucky enough to have some phonenet connectors lying around.  These
connectors support LocalTalk, across which AppleShare works.  My IIgs has a
20meg Vulcan internal HD, so I boot from there, with AppleShare set up on
the IIgs and the Mac.  Share the Mac HD, log into it as a guest from the
IIgs, and voila - my Mac hard drive is on my IIgs desktop.  Cool stuff!
Sadly, I cannot do the same with the Mac's CD ROM drive - it cannot be
shared like the HD can.  :(

> I don't have a hard drive on my IIgs.
> Is it possible to create an appletalk boot disk on an
> 800k drive?

Yes.  The Installer for 6.0.1 has such an option, which I tried once.  It
made a GS/OS boot floppy that booted into the Prodos 16 Launcher, which
helped me not at all.  I couldn't figure out how to get it to run anything
from the Mac.

>  What do you need on the disk for it to
> work?  Can the IIgs then boot from the mac over the
> network?  Does the Mac need a seperate volume for
> the IIgs to use?  Is there any FAQ's on getting this to
> work somewhere?

I've not seen a FAQ.  Undoubtedly more informed people will reply to your
post here, though!

Good luck,
Tim