Re: OS X, Appletalk and Apple II

[you@somehost.somedomain (Bart)]

Well I tried it.

I am sitting in my shop.  Upstairs in the Library is a Mac 8500 that sports 
among other things a Sonnet Cressendo G3 450Mhz CPU upgrade and  OS X running 
on a Conner 4 gig SCSI I recovered from a PeeCee, reformatted and installed in 
a 40 meg external case.  That Mac is on my Network from Heck connected by way 
of  a router to a LONG CAT5 wire and a hub to the basement shop.  Down here I 
have a Quadra 950 running System 7.5.3 Appleshare 3.0.3 and  Localtalk Bridge. 
 Also in the shop are 2 IIe(s) with Workstation cards a IIgs IIe upgrade ROM 1, 
and a ROM 3.  Both IIe(s) are accelerated but the 2 IIgs(s) are running at 
standard speed.  all IIs are hooked to a Localtalk network that also includes a 
IWII on a localtalk card, and a IWLQ also localtalk.  Also in the shop are a 
Performa 6200CD (ethernet slot card), Performa 578 on an Assante EN/SC 
SCSI<>Ethernet box, a 8100 on standard 10BT, a 386 with a Appletalk ISA card, a 
Pentium II Pee Cee and a  Laserwriter IIg hooked in to both the Ethernet AND 
the localtalk network (I found this far easier to print to via the IIs in that 
you don't need the LT Bridge that way)
Got all that? 

NOW!

I fired up all the IIs  with the OS X box upstairs on, Appletalk on, Sharing 
on.  booted the IIe(s) with workstation card in slot 7, booted  the IIGSs with 
appletalk on and then selected Appleshare via the Control Panel.  
On the IIe(s):
on boot: "Looking for AFP Servers" then  a list of each machine avaialable (5 
of them) and one of these is the OS X box.  Select any box without Appleshare 
3.0.3 and you get first a list of volumes and a signon box.  Select a volume 
and supply a valid id and:  "Your startup configuration has not been set up by 
the administrator"  Select a machine WITH Appleshare 3.0.3 and you get: same as 
above except, "Now Launching the startup Path \machine\basic.system   and a 
nice ProDOS prompt (or im my case a Sneeze screen).
Select  the  OS X Box  (note this gang: you CAN select it, ie it shows in the 
list!) and:
"The Server is not responding, you cannot connect to it"

IIGS:
Similar tale for either IIGS 
When I select the OS X machine in Appleshare, it does highlight the machine 
then... even when I enter a  valid User Name in the User Name box, the next 
screen comes up "Connect to the file server "nnnn"  as:  
(x)  Guest   <---this one is checked
( ) Registered User   <---this one is greyed out

reply OK and you get "No Response from the server. Please try again."..

Looks like that young colt OS X refuses any advances from our Grand Old Lady ][

In a word:  DRAT!

-Bart
Keeper of the Network from Heck