Re: OS X, Appletalk and Apple II

[dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson)]

Michael Spangler <mspangler@gemsi.com> wrote:

> dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) wrote:
> > Bart <you@somehost.somedomain> wrote:
> > 
> > > Has anyone yet set up their home net with a Mac as Localtalk Bridge,
> > > to another Mac running OS X  and signed into the OS X mac from their
> > > GS, mapping a drive from Finder to the desktop?
> > 
> > There is one significant problem: out of the box, Mac OS X only supports
> > acting as an AFP server over TCP/IP, not AppleTalk.  There is a
> > "use_appletalk" property in NetInfo, under /config/AppleFileServer,
> > which is 0 by default.  I haven't tested it yet to see whether you get
> > serving over AppleTalk simply by setting this property to 1.
> 
> OS X 10.1.2 works with appletalk now. I have an LC III running 7.5.3
> (no appleshare over TCP)  with Appleshare 3.0 running over ethernet,
> and was sending files around last night.

Yes, but in that case, Mac OS X is the client, not the server.  This is
supported out of the box with Mac OS X 10.1 and later.  (10.0.x didn't
support AFP over AppleTalk at all.)

The issue is that Mac OS X doesn't automatically support acting as a
server for AFP over AppleTalk.  You can turn it on with the
"use_appletalk" property I mentioned, but judging from Roger Johnstone's
followup, it sounds like the IIgs AppleShare client isn't fully
compatible with Mac OS X's AFP server.

-- 
David Empson
dempson@actrix.gen.nz