Excellent instructions (far better than I could do) on how to connect the network together can be found here: http://tangerinecs.com/~amber/network.php . The only thing that I could find in the guide that did not work is the step where it says:
"Now open your AppleTalk control panel and change it to Connect Via: Printer Port."
Don't do that, just keep it connected to ethernet. I don't know why it says to do that since it didn't work for me.
Skipp
PS This question seems to come up every now and then. Someone (possibly me) should write a guide to networking localtalk macs and connecting them to the Internet and submit it to LowEndMac.
On Mar 5, 2004, at 3:05 PM, Matt Jordan wrote:
If I remember correctly, there is some way in early versions of TCP/IP to use a setting called "AppleTalk(MacIP)". I'm only suggesting if you are saying that you want to use phonenet style connecters.
That is good. Both the Mac TV and Color Classic are running their "OEM"
versions of OS 7.1 (with their Enablers) so that shouldn't be a stretch.
How could I set them up to "piggyback" the internet connection on the
6500?
It seems to me though that you would be much better served by getting all of the computers ethernet equipped (possible with all the machines you have) and getting yourself a hub. I am at a college myself, and hubs work just fine with most college networks. I routinely use a PowerBook 1400cs along with my new iMac here on the network.
Well, there is a reason I want to use AppleTalk. Although it *is
possible* to use Ethernet will all of these Macs, the SE/30 has a video
card, the Color Classic has an Apple IIe card and the Mac TV would be
limited to SCSI Ethernet no matter what the situation. I have used SCSI
Ethernet options to put the SE/30 on a network before but there are a
massive list of problems that occur with this option and that includes a
number of termination conflicts, occasional refusals of the system to
start up with the connector installed and rampant system crashes.
The most pressing problem with this is that (although I am in college) I
do not live on campus but rather in a house with friends that has its own
LAN connected to cable ethernet. For whatever reason only newer Macs,
such as those running OS 9 or OS X, will connect to the Internet without
difficulties. I can connect a PCI PowerMac or new Mac to the network with
no problems at all, but none of the Compacts will work at all and I do not
have the time to figure out how to get all of them to talk.
The whole idea behind using AppleTalk was about time saving. A way that I
could do work on one, or access common files, manage something, transfer
small games or other data without having to cart disks around. Adding the
possibility of the internet to this would make it much better.
Thanks,
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