Re: Apple 2gs appleshare

[Steven Nelson <steven-nelson@uiowa.edu>]

On Apr 7, 2:00 am, Scott McCormack <samccorm...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> I dug out my old Apple 2gs and despite being in storage for several
> years the clock was still accurate and the hard drive is still working
> (yay!) Unfortunately the PowerMac 8500 I used to have to serve as a
> file server for the thing died many years ago and the oldest mac I
> currently have is an iMac G3. I am trying to get the IIGS to see the
> network shares on the iMac but so far I've not had any luck. I have
> one of the Ansante Localtalk to Ethernet bridge devices which I used
> to use with the PowerMac and the GS so I know that all works but so
> far I can't seem to get the GS to see the G3 or find out if it is even
> possible to use appleshare between these 2 machines. The G3 can run
> Mac OS 9.1 to 10.4 and if I read the google right OS X is out of the
> running so I've tried sticking with OS 9 but still no luck. The
> machine currently is running 9.2.2 and the restore disk I have has 9.1
> on it so I could try with 9.1 but I haven't done this yet. Here's what
> I've tried so far:
>
> - Enabled file sharing in the G3
> - Installed the Localtalk bridge software on the G3 (Do I even need
> this since the G3 doesn't have the traditional serial ports)
> - Appletalk is active on the ethernet port on the G3
>
> On the GS I have the Appleshare (the control panel calls itself
> AppleShare21H for some reason) still installed that did work with the
> old PowerMac. The control panel on the GS stay resolutely blank. :(
>
> Any ideas? Can I even make this work with these 2 machines? My only
> other option to get software to the GS is by using Proterm and even
> though 3.1 supports fast baud rates anything above 19200 has too many
> errors to be useful.

Scott, I asked a similar question in a thread a couple months ago,
with several informative replies.  In short, it won't work with OSX.
It will(should) work with OS7,8,9.  Are you sure you are actually
booting the G3 in os9?  (The osx "classic" boot won't work.  It has to
be a boot into real os9 - no osx involved.)  And the stinger is it
should be a localtalk
connection thru serial port.  I don't know if a usb/serial converter
like keyspan's will work.  My suggestion is to buy an old powerpc with
real serial ports.  My setup is IIGS<-localtalk->PPC6500/os9/
localtalkbridge<-ethernet->iMacG4/osx10.4 .  A transfer is 2-step.  GS
transfer to/from os9 using appleshare+localtalk cabling.  Then
transfer to/from Mac/os9 and iMac/osx using appleshare over ethernet.
GS to iMac will NOT work.  I have installed netatalk on my osx10.4
machine but still no luck using appleshare on the GS with the osx
machine.

The appleshare21h cdev probably means you are (correctly) using the
one modified by Marsha? to enable cleartext passwords on the GS os6.1.

Good luck and best wishes,  --Steve