At 4:37 PM +0100 on 10/31/04, Are Hansen wittily wrote:
>First: Quadras can run systems up to 8.1 - even if Apple at the time
>did not tell anyone. If your Q610 has enough RAM, it would definitely
>make all networking things simpler, faster and more stable to upgrade
>from 7.6
>
>Some small errors crept in to the other replies to your question. This
>is how you do it, 8.1:
>
>- Open Apple menu > Control panels > Appletalk. Set Appletalk to run
>over Ethernet, on both machines
>- Decide which machine should be server and which a client. On the
>server, open Apple menu > Control panels > File sharing, and turn
>filesharing ON. You don't need to do this on both machines
>- Select the folder that you want to share, and select Sharing from the
>File menu. Click the relevant check boxes
>
>Now open Chooser on the other (client) machine, select AppleShare in
>the left panel, and your server machine should become visible in the
>right panel. Open it. That's all!
>
>
>Maybe it's best to use the G3 as server, to offload the geriatric
>Quadra. The procedure is the same as for 8.1, except for the way you
>specify the folder to share. In 9.1, you select the folder, and then
>Get info from the File-menu. At the top of that window is a local popup
>menu; select Sharing.
>
>
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Thanks to all who replied on this. I got it to work. My problem was that I
wasn't going to the Chooser and selecting the Mac that was there. I had
everything else done. :-}
BTW OS 7.6.1 and 8.1 have pretty much the same Networking features and the
old Quadra can mount the Drives on the G3 just fine now. :-}
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