Re: ProDOS, OS X and Netatalk

[A2Aviator <a2aviator@gmail.com>]

This whole server thing is bordering on the verge of ludicrously.

After fooling around with routers, both instigated by NetATalk itself
and external devices (GatorBox), the IIgs now sees absolute squat.

Aside from the server being a linux box this time around, many many
years, many many networks, all this stuff has just worked.  Gatorbox
not required.

If I want files off a PowerMac, ShareWay worked just fine. EtherWave,
LocalTalk via an LC III that had LocalTalk Bridge on it, Marinetti
with same LC III and Vicom Sluceway serving up MacIP. Again, via
Ethernet card, EtherWave or "Telephone Talk" localtalk node jerk off
clone connector. Didn't matter a bit, or byte.

Pa-the-tic.

I've swapped wires, changed out switches, added hubs, isolated stuff.
The fact that the PowerMac sees it all, the Mac Portable sees it all -
through the same physical cabling, switch, router, etc - tells me it's
not a link issue.  Even the same transceiver on the IIgs, stuck to the
PowerMac - it's fine.

There was a specific point to setting all this up. it's causing quite
a backlog in progress.

Some folks have echoed similar issues where it just plain does not
work, others say it works just fine.

I don't have any of the "modified" AppleShare stuff on the IIgs. All
the years, I've never had to use any of that. Since I can't even get
Ubuntu to show up in the server window to choose from, there's no
point.

It's all behind a firewall, I don't care about plaintext, I don't have
the secrets to the Death Star here. I don't care.