Roger Cohen, whose posts are being bounced, said:...."
I'd love to be able to do it with file sharing. My wife and I are
connected through a router, and we used to be able to file share when
I had an OS machine, but we can't seem to do so since I got an OSX
machine. I have a faint recollection that I called Apple and they
told me that it wasn't possible. Does that sound right?
You cannot use the Mac running OS 9 or OS 8.6 as server for the Mac
running
Mac OS X. You'll get an error message stating that some component of
AppleTalk is too old.
Using the Mac OS X Mac as server and connecting the Mac running OS
9 or OS
8.6 to it, however, works just fine.
I am currently using Apple File Sharing on three computers at my desk:
iMac, Intel Core 2 Duo, OS 10.4.10, Ethernet wired connection to hub, to
Netgear router
PowerMac 8500, (upgraded to) G4/450, OS 9.1, Ethernet wired
connection to
hub, to Netgear router
MacBook Pro, Intel Core 2 Duo, OS 10.4.10, wireless Airport to Netgear
router
I have the following connections made:
iMac <- Apple File Sharing -> 8500
8500 <- Apple File Sharing -> iMac
iMac <- Apple File Sharing -> MacBook Pro
MacBook Pro <- Apple File Sharing -> iMac
8500 <- TCP/IP File Sharing -> iMac
All the drives from all the computers are mounted on each other's
desktops.
I connect the 8500 to the MacBook Pro (Airport) by using the Chooser's
"Server IP Address" button, instead of clicking a name listed in the
Chooser's "Select a file server" lists.
I do this because the 8500's OS 9.1 Chooser does not see the MacBook
Pro.
This is because my old Netgear router does not move the proper AppleTalk
packets wirelessly, although it moves them properly by wired
Ethernet. But
connecting by IP address isn't a big deal. Just find the MacBook
Pro's IP
address (System Preferences -> Network), enter that into the Chooser ->
Select a file server, and click the button.
I will now unmount all the shared volumes, before I create a cosmic
meltdown.
I also have Timbuktu Pro installed on all three Macs. (Well, the two
Intels
are Macs, and the 8500 is a Macintosh.) For a real cosmic meltdown,
I can
cause a cascade of:
iMac -> Timbuktu controls -> MacBook Pro -> Timbuktu controls -> 8500 ->
Timbuktu controls iMac -> temporal anomaly
Add the Parallels Windows XP installations on the two Intel machines,
and I
may have created a black hole. I have not figured out how to do file/
disk
sharing between either XP virtual machine and the Macs.
Anyway, other than the XP sharing, it all works.
Hunky dory.
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