Re: Networking?

[Greg Buchner <nobody@wavetech.net>]

In article <9bc7s6$4i7$1@news.fas.harvard.edu>,
 Ben Zotto <zotto.NO@SPAM.fas.harvard.edu> wrote:

> > Can a IIgs use a localtalk/ethernet bridge?
> 
> Though I have not personally done this, there have been recent posts here
> from people who have done it successfully, usually in the context of
> connecting to a Linux machine to do file sharing via the netatalk
> package.
> 
> I am under the impression that a IIGS will not correctly share files
> on a "modern" AppleTalk network, as the more recent versions (4.0 and
> above of AppleShare?) of the Mac-based server software no longer
> include the code that supports the IIGS.  
> 
> Others can probably give you more details, depending on what you
> want your setup to look like.

Yes, for a long while, I was using a localtalk/ethernet bridge to
let my IIGS access my Mac network.  The IIGS (running 6.0.1) had
no problems reading any Mac hard drive at any time, even the HFS+
ones...this is because all of the network stuff is done with the
appletalk protocol.  I was using the built-in filesharing on the
Mac end.  I could have used the Appleshare file server software,
but didn't see a need.  The reason the Appleshare file server
software comes up, is that up to v3.0.? you could set it up to
allow the IIGS to boot over the network.  This went away in 
the v4.0 of the software.  But the built-in filesharing still
worked just fine, you just couldn't use it to boot the GS....

Greg B.
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