Re: Let's Talk on AppleTalk-AppleShare

[shack@crash.cts.com (Randy Shackelford)]

In article <2to87i$gj@nyx10.cs.du.edu>,
Chris Deschu <cdeschu@nyx10.cs.du.edu> wrote:

>>Won't work. If you try it you get a message saying items on floppy disks
>>cannot be shared.

>There's no reason you can't make a shared folder on your mac's HD,
>and use it as an intermediate point between the GS and the 1.44 drive.
>Copy stuff using the GS to the shared folder, and then use the mac to
>put it on the 1.44. The other way, use the mac to copy the data from
>the 1.44 to the shared folder, and then retrieve it with the GS.
>BTW, if you get the ProDOS Filesystem init from the LC's //e card
>software, you can even format 1.44MB ProDOS disks using the mac.
>You might as well steal the //e beep, too, it's cool. :)
>	I have the opposite problem. I have a 1.44mb drive on my GS,
>but my file server is a mac plus, which has no 1.44mb drive. So, if
>I want to access 1.44mb mac disks for the plus, I have to use the 
>GS and system 6 to copy the data to the mac's hard drive over
>appleshare. Works great.

This is all well and good but the answer to the original poster's question
was and is that it is not possible to access a floppy disk over the network.
Since you brought it up it should be mentioned that there's no need to set
up shared folders if you log on to the Mac using the same name as the owner
of the machine which you set in the sharing setup control panel. If you do
this you can access everything.
For the record, I keep a 4 mb RAM disk set up on my Quadra and log the IIgs
on to it via Appleshare to transfer files.
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