Re: How to get a GS networked to a Mac via AppleShare?

[nathan@visi.com (Nathan Mates)]

In article <32fa12ea.152395482@news.concentric.net>,
Warren "Llama" Ernst <wernst@cris.com> wrote:
>OK, I feel like this is a question I should already know about, but I
>haven't had a need to know for years: Is it possible to get some sort
>of very basic network connection between a Mac (IIfx, in this case)
>running System 7.5.5 with a ROM01 Apple IIGS?

   Take a look at the comp.sys.apple2 Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
at http://www.visi.com/~nathan/a2/faq/csa2.html sections 7.3 and 7.4,
plus a link down to
http://www.visi.com/~nathan/a2/faq/gsatalksetup.html

   Short answer: install System 6.x's Appletalk/Appleshare software
on the GS. Turn on (personal) filesharing on the System 7.x mac. Make
sure Appletalk is enabled on both machines. Connect with a cable--
Imagewriter II cable will do fine from printer port to printer port
if only 2 machines; go for some of the phonenet type connectors
if >2 machines.

>I don't care if only the GS can see the Mac hard drive

   This is indeed the case; only the GS has read/write access to
whatever you've got shared on the Mac side, with the Appleshare FST
installed.

>What sort of hardware connection or cable would I need for this? Is it
>even possible? Is there a FAQ or something that covers this? I haven't
>seen one.

   There's short pieces referenced from the comp.sys.apple2 FAQ; for
some reason, I appear to be incapable of writing a FAQ less than 50K
in size, so this wouldn't get its own FAQ. :)

Nathan Mates
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