Re: MAC <-> GS Appletalk

[dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson)]

TheDM <thedm@sunflower.com> wrote:

> You've got everything you need :) All you need to do is turn it on.
> 
> 1) You need to have mac os 7.1 or higher, [I think] in the mac control
> panel, you go to the network icon and make apple talk {active}  then you
> select a folder or drive or whatever and share it. [where this command is
> depends on the version of MacOS.

Mac System 7.0 is the first version that supports file sharing, and it
is the Chooser you use to activate AppleTalk, not a Control Panel.
(With Open Transport installed, you should use the AppleTalk control
panel instead, but that isn't likely on an SE.)

You missed out an important step: turn on file sharing by going into the
Sharing Setup control panel and clicking the Start button (you may need
to name the machine first, also in this control panel).  Under MacOS 8.0
(?) and later, this control panel has been renamed to "File Sharing"
(and merged with the separate "File Sharing Monitor" control panel), but
again this doesn't affect the SE.

The "Sharing..." command is used to actually share a volume or folder
once file sharing is on.  It is under the File menu in every version of
Finder that I've seen (but I haven't used 7.0 or 7.1 much, so they might
have moved it there in 7.5).

> 2) On your GS. You need GS/0S 6.0.1 and at least 1.25megs ram. A hard drive
> is best, but you can, [and I have} done it on floppy, but you gotta have two
> floppys. You need to make sure you have no cards in slot 7 of your GS.
> unless you have a Rom3.  Then you go into the Firmware control panel on your
> GS, and enable appletalk on slot 7 and then make whatever you pulled out of
> it active in it's slot. For example I had to put my SCSI card from 7 to slot
> 2. So then I make Slot 2 say "Your Card" and slot 7 appletalk.

On a ROM 3, don't set slot 7 to AppleTalk.  Instead, set either slot 1
or 2 to AppleTalk (matching the port to which the network is connected).

> Then you take a printer cable, like //c, or MacSe to Imagewriter II cable,
> and hook it in the serial port on the GS, and the Appletalk port on the mac.

The IIc serial connector is different from the others.  Perhaps you
meant IIc+?  (That might not work if you have a nonstandard cable, since
the IIc+ doesn't use all the pins that the Mac, IIgs and ImageWriter II
use.)

> 3) Then load up your GS/OS from your HD get out your install disk, and go to
> Customize and load the appletalk software. OR for floppy, stick your install
> disk in disk1 and boot, and go to customise and choose the option appletalk
> client disk.

To be precise, you need to install the "Network: AppleShare" option onto
your system disk.

> 4) reboot, on the GS go into control panel,

Control Panels NDA (under the Apple menu), not the firmware (text) one.

> then Appleshare, and connect to your Mac.  This is how I get stuff to and
> from my GS from the web, and convert files from GS or A2 to the mac and
> even then to the PC.

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David Empson
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