At 12:10 PM -0500 3/13/2003, Fletch Brendan Good wrote: > >It only sees the other computer though; the other computer can't >>mount the SE's HD. That's a system 6 thing though IIRC. > > >Yeah, now that you mention it, I recall the same thing- I was >recently mucking around with a System 6 SE myself. I needed to >transfer some files so I just plugged a printer cable in, connected >it to my 6100, and set up the AppleTalk to use the printer port. >That's when I realized I could mount the 6100 with the SE, but not >vice versa. > >I remember reading something about how you can't set up file sharing >on System 6 (which would enable you to mount it from another >computer). Am I missing something? Was there any extension or other >software from Apple (or someone) that enabled System 6 to share?
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