Re: An Appletalk Query

[Phil Beesley <pb14@le.ac.uk>]

In article <08ZE5.18$Ql4.1153@dca1-nnrp2.news.digex.net>, Frank
Townsend <ftownsen@iamdigex.net> wrote:

> Bart:
> 
> You mean you have a ProDOS or IIe driver for the EN/SC?  I have one of these
> but only use it from the Mac side on an LC.
> 
> Where did you find the ProDOS driver?

Bart would not need a IIe driver for the EN/SC. My understanding of the
Apple IIe LC card is that it uses services on the Mac for its display
and network connection and so on. The IIe LC card does not "talk"
directly to AppleShare servers (you don't need to install the Apple IIe
Workstation card software, for example) but uses the existing AppleTalk
network service on the host Mac. In Bart's case, AppleTalk services run
over the EN/SC adapter rather than the built-in LocalTalk facility.

Bart also wrote:

> I would like to be able to stash stuff in ProDOS land to be used
> throughout the network from heck, but so far cannot.
> I have noted this behavior on other Macs runing Appleshare 3.n

David Empson very eloquently explained why it is not possible for
AppleShare to share a ProDOS format disk volume. A work around would be
to have a script or Cron job to synchronize two shared folders, one on
the ProDOS volume and the other on the HFS volume. If you're running
System 7.x, AppleScript should be up to this sort of job. The actual
script is trickier than it initially sounds because you also have to
provide a mechanism for synchronizing the deletion of files...

Phil Beesley