Re: Apple II's and highspeed access

[salfter@salfter.diespammersdie.dyndns.org (Scott Alfter)]

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In article <cr4lb9$3oa$1@unlnews.unl.edu>,
Ed Eastman  <noone@nowhere.net> wrote:
>Hooking it into your network is a no brainer now that the LANceGS card 
>is available, but what you want is communication between the disparate 
>computers.  There is little to no software available to allow an Apple 
>II to communicate with another PC for file exchange or printer sharing. 
>  (I'm ignoring Appletalk and the Macs.)  They simply do not share 
>enough common elements to make that easy.  (Caveat Peter Watson and MUG!)

You don't need a Mac to serve up AppleTalk:

http://netatalk.sourceforge.net/

Put this on a Linux box (it could be an old 486 or Pentium sitting in your
closet), add in a LocalTalk-Ethernet bridge of some sort (such as a
GatorBox), and you're all set.  It'll serve up files to Apple IIs and Macs
equally well, and you can have Samba (http://www.samba.org/) running on the
same box to serve files to Windows and DOS clients.  If I wanted, I could
move files across the LAN between my IIGS and my IBM PC/XT with a setup like
this. :-)

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