Re: Apple II network utilities

["Frank Townsend" <ftownsen@iamdigex.net>]

"David Empson" <dempson@actrix.gen.nz> wrote in message
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> Frank Townsend <ftownsen@iamdigex.net> wrote:
>
> > My MacLC/IIe card will boot from an AppleShare server, to a Basic
prompt.  I
> > would like to copy files from the Apple IIe to the server, but none of
the
> > usual utilities running on local drives on the LC/IIe seem to be able to
see
> > the volumes on the server.
>
> Define "usual utilities".  Copy II+ almost certainly won't be able to
> access a server.  Apple II System Utilities should work, as should
> AppleWorks, ShrinkIt and several others.

I was using ShrinkIt.


> You have to boot from a disk which is set up correctly with the ATINIT
> file that hooks the network interface into ProDOS.  This should be done
> automatically if you are booting from a server, but won't work with
> booting from a local volume unless you copy the appropriate ATINIT file
> onto your startup disk.  For local booting, you also need the other
> AppleShare utilities such as NAMER.II, CHOOSER.II, LOGON and LOGOFF.


I was booting from the server then, at the Basic prompt typing IN#5 which
boots ShrinkIt.  At that point, tabbing through the volumes shows only local
drives but not the network volume.


> > Do I need the Apple IIe Workstation Card software or what?
>
> If the IIe card can boot directly from an AppleShare server (using a
> LocalTalk network connected to the LC's printer port) then adding a IIe
> Workstation Card wouldn't achieve anything.
>
> Is it even possible?  I don't recall any Apple II slot being available
> on the LC IIe card.

Sorry, I meant the software that I assume is supplied with the Workstation
Card, not the card itself.