Yeah, I was just going to updated this post for anyone interested. I�ve been testing and connecting an OS X (10.3.4) to a OS 8.6 machine seems to be good. No dropped connection.
I switched my file server to OS 8.6 and it�s been good for 2 days now. Geno On 8/7/04 2:40 AM, "Neil Hughes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 2 Aug 2004 11:39:05 -0700, Geno wrote: > >> Known Issues For Me: >> >> My problem is my OS X (10.3.4) computers drops the connection to the OS 9 >> (9.2.2) computer. Sometimes in a few minutes and sometimes never. Making it >> a pain to use the OS 9 computer for a server. >> >> On an Apple Knowledge page somewhere I read that for a stable OS 9 to OS X >> connection you need to manually set the OS 9 computers IP address. I1ve done >> this but it doesn1t help. >> >> I1d manually set the ip on my OS X machine but then I can1t seem to find my >> internet connection. Any Ideas how you do this? >> >> It1s funny because I1ve also got another G3 running OS 8.6 hosting FileMaker >> Server 5 using TCP/IP and the connection never fails. > > I'm late to this thread, but I just wanted to point out that I have > almost exactly the same issues here with a B&W running OS 9.2.2 - the OS > X machines will lose the connection if they're not doing anything with it > after about 5 minutes. If the OS X machines are booted into OS 9.2.2 or > the B&W booted into OS 8.6 then the connection is rock solid. > > Neil > -- G-List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- We have Apple Refurbished Monitors in stock! | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> G-List list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/g-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
