I don't recall this entire discussion, so excuse me if this has already
been mentioned, but back when I first got my eMac about 2 years ago, I
went through this same thing. I was finally able to get things to work
with the help of a piece of shareware called Sharepoints, by Hornware.
I was able to successfully connect between a IIsi running 7.1 and the
eMac running 10.2. The sharepoints software had a button that enabled
AppleTalk on the eMac. You could also do this by getting into the
NetInfo database on the eMac but I could never find much documentation
about that stuff. It has been a couple of years since I fooled with it,
once I transfered all the files I needed, and the details are foggy,
but the following is from a text file I created at the time when I
worked through the problems.
begin old stuff
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Test 1.
Mac IIsi: Clean install of basic system 7.1
Extensions: Appleshare 7.1
Ether Talk Phase 2 2.3.1
Ether Talk Prep 1.0.2
File Sharing Extension 7.1
Network Extension 7.1
Control Panels: File Sharing Monitor 7.1
Network 2.3.3
Sharing Setup 7.1
Users & Groups 7.1
eMac: os X 10.2.2 Personal File Sharing enabled via Sharing system
preference pane.
AppleTalk active via Network system
preference pane.
Results: The eMac 'sees' the IIsi, can connect, and can mount shared
items, move files both directions.
The IIsi, "sees' the eMac, but gets "The connection to this server
has been unexpectedly broken" error.
------------------------------------------------------------------------
------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Test 2.
Mac IIsi: Clean install of basic system 7.1 (Same as above)
eMac: os X 10.2.2 Personal File Sharing enabled via Sharing system
preference pane.
AppleTalk active via Network system
preference pane.
Used SharePoints freeware , checked "Use
AppleTalk"
Results: The eMac 'sees' the IIsi, can connect, and can mount shared
items, move files both directions.
The IIsi, "sees' the eMac, connects and mounts. Files move both
directions. SUCCESS!!!!!
Note--------------------------------------------------------------------
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After digging around, I found that the key is that the AppleFileServer
subsystem in osX must be configured to use AppleTalk. There is a
configuration variable named 'use_appletalk', that needs to be set to
1. The SharePoints program makes this easy. Just click on the box that
says 'Use AppleTalk'. It can also be changed through the NetInfo
Manager, but that utility is pretty cryptic. Go to / , then config,
then AppleFileServer. Scroll down through the list of properties until
you find use_appletalk. Using the New Value and Delete Value items in
the Directory menu, change the 0 value to a 1. It's a lot easier (and
probably safer) to just use SharePoints to do this. Somewhere on the
disk is the actual unix configuration file the that is being edited,
but I haven't found it yet.
Note that this is in addition to enabling "Make AppleTalk Active" via
the Network system preferences pane. "Making AppleTalk Active" here
without setting "use_appletalk" as described above allows the osX
machine to connect to the classic system, but not vice versa.
Setting "use_appletalk" without "Making AppleTalk Active" seemed to
crash the AppleFileServer subsystem. SharePoints made it easy to
restart that.
------------------------------------------------------------------------
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end old stuff
I do recall that even when I was successful, there was still an issue
that when looking from the IIsi to the eMac the IIsi could not
correctly tell how big the disk drive on the eMac was or how much space
was there, it would sometimes say that a file was too large to transfer
even though it was not. I think this was probably an issue with system
7.1 not being able to cope with volumes bigger than 2 gigabytes.
Anyhow, if you have not yet tried using Sharepoints, give it a try.
Bob
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