>I have a connection puzzle. My daughter (who lives a long way from here)
>has a 280c, a dock (which I take it must be a duodock II to fit a colour
>duo) and an original edition bondi iMac. What she does not have is a
>monitor for the duodock (it is a long, painful story why). Questions:
>
>3. Is there a way to set up file sharing on the 280c before it is stuck
>in the dock (so the screen can be used) so that it will be picked up on
>the iMac screen when they are connected ? If it is possible, what is the
>drill?
In principle you can do this, but you'll find there's a snag; you can't
bind Appletalk networking to your Ethernet interface out of the dock,
because it's not there. Thus you can turn on File Sharing using Appletalk
over a different kind of wire (the "Localtalk" printer port), but that
won't work with the iMac. The only solution I can think of offhand given
the parts you have is to turn on Appletalk (via Localtalk) and File Sharing
on the Duo and have someone write a small Applescript for the Startup Items
folder that will switch Appletalk to the Ethernet port the next time it
starts up (in the Dock II). However, even this might only work with OS 8.5
or 8.6 (I don't know if one could script the network settings before then).
There are other ways you could force a switch to an existing
Appletalk-Ethernet configuration, but your problem is going to be creating
that configuration in the first place. The Appletalk control panel tries to
prevent you from screwing up, and one of the ways it does that is by only
listing the currently present interfaces to choose from (the underlying
software will also "helpfully" switch things for you if you have Ethernet
previously chosen but no Ethernet hardware can currently be found).
>I use file sharing between a 2400c and a PowerComputing box but I find
>it continually confusing and deeply wish Apple would redesign it or
>create a version not aimed at full networks.
It's most definitely not aimed at full networks (by which I'll assume you
mean enterprise networks). They have a more complicated product for Mac OS
X Server that addresses that. There are probably one or two things that
could be made more clear in Personal File Sharing, but only a little - it's
pretty bare-bones simple as it is (as networking goes). In fact the
simplicity is mostly why you'll have the problem I cite above - I'd be
happier if the network setup panels were a little *less* simple and allowed
me to do a few more interesting things. The Mac OS networking software
(especially TCP/IP) could do a lot more if a configuration interface was
provided for most of the features (this is largely what third-party
software like IPNetrouter does).
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