I know you're going to think this does not apply to all of these e-mail lists, but it actually does. Bear with me.
I have been assembling my Mac network: a Q950, a Performa 5200CD (Please, no Road Apple comments; it's actually a pretty nice alarm clock using iTunes), and a PowerMac 9500 G3. I've got all Mac OS versions available, from 7.1 through OS X 10.1. First off, for OS X 10.0 through 10.0.4's AppleTalk to work, the other computer must be running at least Mac OS 9.0. OS X 10.0.4 requires the client to be running Open Transport 2.7.3, which is 9.0 or higher only. OS X 10.1 is far more lenient; it supports AFP over AppleTalk, instead of just TCP/IP over AppleTalk. So, I started with the basics on my Q950: Mac OS 7.5.5. No dice, when trying to mount the OS X 10.1's share, I get "The connection with the server was unexpectedly broken". So, I go download the newest non-PowerPC OpenTransport I can find on Apple's site: 1.1.2. Still, no dice. Try 8.1, and it works fine. 8.1's Open Transport version is 1.3.1. I found Open Transport 1.3 on Apple's developer site, but decided to not mess with it. My Q950 has 64MB of RAM, so I'll just give in and run 8.1 on it. Not worth the hassle of downloading and trying different versions of Open Transport. I guess if you want to get an 030 Mac talking with an OS X computer, you'll need to be running 7.5.5 with Open Transport 1.3+. Don't know if it will work or not. Moral of the story: OS X 10.1 works best if the computers on the network are at least Mac OS 8.1. This means that 030 Macs are no longer supported. If someone wants to continue my research and test Open Transport 1.3, please go ahead. Make a webpage and list all of the software necessary to get 7.5.5 working with 10.1. Send me a link to, I might try it. For now, I'm giving up. Just in case anyone cares: Q950 33MHz 040 1GB SCSI (Boot volume) 2GB SCSI (Storage) 4X CDROM Mac OS 8.1 Performa 5200CD 75Mhz 603 2GB IDE (Boot volume) 4X CDROM Mac OS 9.1 (Running iTunes2, great as an alarm clock) PowerMac 9500 476MHz G3 1MB cache 9GB SCSI (Boot volume) 3GB SCSI (Mac OS 9.1) Running Mac OS X 10.1 Terry -- Unsupported OS X is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Unsupported OS X list info <http://lowendmac.com/lists/unsupported.html> 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/unsupportedosx%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
