Re: Appletalk or GS/TCP?

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

Matt Portune <mportune@telerama.lm.com> wrote:

> In article <sheldon-0912961438530001@lpm3-3.atlcom.net>,
> sheldon@atlcom.net (Sheldon Simms) wrote:
> > Well plug in your IIgs and watch the PC's hard drive (or part of it
> > anyway) show up in the IIgs finder. Then you can copy files back & forth.
> > Boot your IIgs from the PC.

You will almost certainly not be able to boot the IIgs from a PC, as
this requires that the PC implement that Apple II network boot facility
(which is not used by any other AppleShare client).  This has even been
removed from the AppleShare server software on the Mac as of version
4.0.

> This is basically excatly what I'd like to do.  
> 
> In my previous posts, I mentioned being able to log in and out of the GS from
> the PC, well, that was wrong.  :)  What I REALLY want to have, is a folder on
> the PC called "Share" and have that drive/folder show up on the GS, and be
> able to copy stuff in and out of it.  This is what we have at work.  Every Mac
> can log into "DEV" (the NT 3.51 station) through the Chooser, then select the
> "Share" folder.  Then, "Share" shows up on the desktop as a funky little
> networked folder icon.  The rest is history.
> 
> Can the GS's Appletalk do this as well?

I hadn't tried this before, so I just set it up between my Mac and IIgs.

Yes.  You can share an entire volume, or set up a shared folder on the
hard drive (but not both).  You can presumably set up multiple shared
folders, but I haven't tried that.

As far as the IIgs (or any other client) is concerned, the shared folder
is just a file server hard drive.

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