Greetings all,
This one is for the AppleTalk gurus in Panther, a system I am not yet
familiar with.
My friend was having difficulties getting a G4 (AGP model) w/ Panther to
recognize a network server via AppleTalk (via the native Ethernet port).
Wanting to see if the problem may be the port itself, I invited him over to
hook it up to my known-to-work home network, served by a cable modem and
cable router.
To compliment the situation, I hooked up the G4 with two of my units
running: a B+W G3 running Jaguar (10.2.8) and a beige G3 running OS 9.2.2.
On the G4 (using Panther): checked TCP/IP and it correctly registered my IP
address, and indeed surfed the web successfully. I made sure the standard
file sharing accoutrements were active (AppleTalk on, file sharing on, using
Enet, etc.), then went to the other units first. Both the B+W and the beige
recognized and (using correct password, etc.) mounted the G4 onto the
desktop - good news, this.
I went to the G4, selected "Go" and then "connect to server":
Very odd:
� first, it did not recognize the beige *at all*, and I wonder if this is a
limitation with Panther - that it can't see OS 9.x (again, I am not familiar
w/Panther enough to say this is a problem or not; I *think* it's a problem)
� second, the B+W (w/ Jaguar) did not mount, or allow mounting. I got what
was to me an unfamiliar window, supposedly it is meant to list available
servers it is recognizing, but none were listed: I clicked the "browse"
button.
I got an even more unfamiliar "Network" window that had icons of the G4's HD
and the B+W's main HD, not the actual mounted drive icons but aliases to
both.
Control-clicking on the B+W's HD, I selected "go to original" and it proved
fruitless. However, I could click on the alias, and it would open to display
other aliases of the folders inside; I could open any of the folders, and
drag any document and copy it to the desktop of the G4, but I *could not*
mount the B+W's drives!
I shut down the G4, and installed an Apple 10/100bT PCI Ethernet card, and
duplicated the entire scenario - same results.
To summarize, here's where the G4 is:
Ethernet port:
Internet - yes
AppleTalk - inbound (can be seen from other machines) - yes
AppleTalk - outbound (can see other OS 9 machines - No
AppleTalk - outbound (can see other OS X machines - No, not really: does
aliases of other units,
but not the "real thing"
Status is the same regardless of native Enet port, or PCI Enet card.
What am I missing?
Sorry for the long post. Thank you for listening.
Best regards,
Dana
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