Re: LocalTalk/AppleShare between IIgs and Mac LC 575 - how?

["william strutts" <wrstrutts1@home.com>]

What if you ran Multifinder under Mac system 6.0 and
ran Appleshare 2.0?  Would it still require the Mac to
be a dedicated server?

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"ground.ecn AppleII Librarian" <apple2pd@garp3.icaen.uiowa.edu> wrote in
message news:9g5e2g$t37$1@server05.icaen.uiowa.edu...
> In article <3b259230$0$280$45beb828@newscene.com>,
> Cameron Kaiser  <ckaiser@stockholm.ptloma.edu> wrote:
> >"Rodney Hester" <rod3@mindspring.com> writes:
> >
> >>I _think_ it requires AppleShare 3.0 (the server edition), where the
IIgs
> >>acts as a workstation.  Problem is, you have to dedicate your Mac to
serving
> >>to get this to work - hardly worth the effort and expense in today's
world
> >>of Focus drives.  =)
> >
> >My IIgs accepts boot blocks from a Mac SE/30 running ASFSv2. However, I
can't
> >get it to boot GS/OS right (only Basic.System boots properly) over the
network
> >though it runs System 6 fine from a floppy. Has anyone been able to fit
all
> >the needed components to boot up GS Finder and mount AppleShare volumes
on a
> >single floppy? I couldn't get all the pieces of the CDEV and a skeletal
OS
> >to fit into 800K.
> >
>
> I wish to clarify a couple points.
>
> Appleshare 2.x runs on a Mac under System 6.x, and requires the Mac be
> dedicated to be an appleshare server.  Appleshare 3.x runs on a Mac under
> System 7.x and is just another task running.  The Mac is NOT dedicated to
> appleshare but can run other programs too.  Perhaps the writer meant that
> file serving requires a Mac and can not be done with only apple2's at the
> present time.
>
> I can boot my IIGS System 6 from a MacSE, Sys 7.0, running Appleshare 3.0.
> (Originaly was IIGS System 6.0, but I upgraded to Sys 6.0.1 a few years
> ago.  Appleshare was upgraded to v3.0.3 but I didn't notice any change.)
> When netbooting, no floppy drive is needed.  (A floppy was needed when I
> first installed the Appleshare netboot system, but is a luxury accessory
> after that ;-) )  I have no experience with Appleshare v2 although I have
> that version on my shelf somewhere.  I might suspect v2 only works with
> GSOS System 5.0.x, but I am not certain.  Sys 5.0.4, Sys 6.0, and Sys6.0.1
> each required a unique disk for the Mac to setup Appleshare3 booting.
>
> I really enjoy having my IIGS, IIe's, MacLC w/ IIe card networked via
> appletalk.  I use a MacSE, Sys 7.0.1, for appleshare3 server.  I run
> Appletalk bridge on a MacPPC 8150 Workgroup server (Sys 8.5) so my II's
> can share files with other Macs on the ethernet.  Cool :-)
>
> One of my problems:  When I boot the IIe's from the appleshare server I
> can NOT connect to another Mac on the network.  (I can login successfully
> it appears but the IIe goes haywire when the login applic quits.  The IIGS
> and MacLC w/IIe card do not have this problem.  I can login to many Macs
> concurrently on those machines.  IIRC, the IIe can login to more than one
> Mac if I boot from a floppy rather than netboot, but I almost always
> netboot.
>
> Happy networking!
>
>   --Steve
>
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>
>  --Steve  (apple2pd@ground.ecn.uiowa.edu)
>
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