Re: TCP/IP for the ignorant?

["Phil Abel" <phil_nospam4you_abel@prodigy.net>]

I have my GS hooked up to a Mac 636CD running MacOS 8.1.  If I put in a data
CD in before logging in, I can access the CD ROM drive as well as the hard
drive on the Mac.  It actually seems to work faster than using a local CDSC
drive on the GS (at least for browsing folders).  So I am using the Mac as
kind of an archive machine for my offline/compressed GS files.  My next
project will be to try your setup whereby I hook the old Mac into a more
powerful Mac one via ethernet.  Want to get another phone net box and get
another GS hooked up to the apple talk network as well.  Also have a null
modem between GS and PC.  So I can transfer files in a roundabout way from
PC <-> Mac via GS!  Who needs PCMacLan :)

"Dave Althoff, Jr." <dalloff@gcfn.org> wrote in message
news:aviu4b$drc$1@ronco.freenet.columbus.oh.us...
> Tonight I made a significant breakthrough.  Here's what I have:
>
> Macintosh OS 10.2.3 <==> MacOS 7.5.3 <---> GS/OS 6.0.1
> New G4                   Mac LC-III        Apple IIgs
>
> I finally got the Ethernet card working in the LC-III, and it sits under
> the desk without keyboard, mouse, or monitor, happily running the
> Localtalk Bridge and behaving as a file server.  Ethernet connects it to
> the G4, PhoneNet cables connect it to the IIgs (soon to a second IIgs as
> well).
>
> It all works.  Tonight I downloaded files on the G4, stored them on the
> LC-III and recovered them with the IIgs.  The IIgs can read files
> directly from the G4, but can't write to it even though it has the proper
> permissions, it generates a "parameter out of range" error.  But that's
> not such a big deal, after all, I've got that server in there.
>
> Okay.  So now I can move files across the room without sending them
> across town first.  This is a dramatic improvement.  With some clever
> programming, I could probably do as someone described here recently, I
> could create a watch directory on the server, write files there with the
> IIgs and use those files to tell the G4 what I want it to do.
>
> "But why should I stop there?" I thought.  I've learned recently that the
> MacIP link layer exists for Marinetti, though it might not be fully
> functional.  So I figured I'd download it and give it a try.  It would be
> just great if I could use the IIgs to telnet into my G4.  Particularly
> when Apple's not-quite-complete applications (culprits so far have been
> iTunes, iDVD, and DVD Player) decide to lock me out while using the whole
> screen.  Why have an iCrash when I could just log in remotely and iKill
> the iProcess?  (Oops, I guess I've been spending too much time with the
> Mac).  Besides, if I could log in to the Mac, I could do all kinds of
> neat things, with or without the Internet connection (which is another
> issue altogether).
>
> Well, that's where I failed miserably.  My problem?  I have an isolated
> network here.  When I start Marinetti, one of the things it does...in
> fact one of the things it insists on...is to try and connect to an
> Internet gateway machine.  This is where I am getting lost.  My network
> consists of two computers connected to a hub, with one of those computers
> supplying the gateway to the LocalTalk network (which right now has only
> two machines on it).  That's the closest thing I have to a gateway on the
> entire network.  None of the machines on the network requires either a
> gateway or a DNS to function; I'm happy to refer to each machine by its
> IP address, and everything is in the same subnet.  Any suggestions for
> how to get Marinetti to allow this non-Internet connection to work?
>
> (Any suggestions for how to allow the G4 to accept network connections
> via the Ethernet without accepting via the PPP adapter are also welcome,
> but that's not an Apple ][ issue...)
>
> --Dave Althoff, ][.
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