Re: AppleTalk

[Marsha <menacechgo@aol.com>]

[posted and mailed]

"Mark Cummings" <NOTfigjams@primus.com.au> wrote in 
news:3f1d4447$1_1@news.iprimus.com.au:

> Isn't there some limit on the OS version that AppleShare 3.0 will run on,
> and less than OS9 ?

I don't remember if I'd tried running it on 8.6  When trying to run the 
Admin program it gives a 'Volume Full' error, so I may just have more files 
than AS3 wants to handle, or it may have to do with changes in HFS or HFS+

> but how do you mean that the Mac is a Print Server ?

As far as I know the Appleshare Print server only does ImageWriter, IWLQ 
and Laserwriter printers.  I use it because I have an LW Pro 810 which has, 
an incompatible to the GS, Appletalk protocol.

> As far as booting off the PC (via LocalTalk Bridge), I don't think that 
> is possible is it ? or does the GS just need an AppleShare Volume ?

The Apple IIs need two of three Appletalk entities (i.e. pseudo devices) on 
the network to do a 'diskless boot'.  The only ways to support them have 
been AS2.0 and 3.0 and now in the development version of Netatalk under 
Linux.
While one can boot a 3.5 and then log in to a file server, without a post 
boot init runner, the user is limited to drivers, inits, etc. that could be 
fit on the 3.5 disk.

Marsha