Many thanks to Craig, Ronda, Greg & others who passed on so much info on the recent "networking for idiots thread - I now have a much clearer idea on how this all works (I think/hope!).
I have now come across another area where Tiger seems to behave differently - it may be my settings but I think it is more that some networking features have been changed in Tiger. The problem came when I tried to connect to my G4 400MHz Ti Powerbook, running OS 9.1. Whilst my G4 iMac (running 10.2.8) would connect OK the new G5 iMac (running 10.4.3) would see the powerbook but attempting to connect would give the error message "Connection failed This file server uses an incompatible version of the AFP protocol. You cannot connect to it.". I should say that I normally have my powerbook set-up to access the internet via dial-up so TCP/IP is set to connect via PPP. Previously with my G4 iMac I had found that the iMac could see and connect to the powerbook but although the powerbook could see the iMac it would not connect to it. After much searching of the Apple knowledge base and other sites, I found that the reason was that the although the OSX iMac could connect to shared volumes via Appletalk, it would only allow access to it's shared volumes via TCP/IP. I found that if I set TCP/IP on the powerbook to connect via ethernet (and set up the addresses manually) I could connect to the iMac - though then I could not connect to the internet! I have lived with this by having two locations set up on the powerbook - one for internet with TCP/IP set to PPP and one for two-way file sharing with TCP/IP set to ethernet. Whilst annoying, this has not been too bad because for most purposes I could leave the powebook set for internet and do any file management from the iMac. On the rare occasions when I needed to mount the iMac shared volume on the Powerbook (rather than the other way around) I would temporarily change locations on the Powerbook. However given the error message I get when trying to access the powerbook from the new G5 iMac, Tiger no longer can access shared volumes over Appletalk - although you can apparently turn Appletalk on & off ??! When I changed TCP/IP on the powerbook to connect via Ethernet, Tiger would then connect and mount the shared volume. Could anyone confirm that my understanding is correct here - or do I just need to alter some setting somewhare to allow Tiger to connect via Appletalk while the powerbook is set up with TCP/IP to connect via PPP as I can do with Jaguar. Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Fax: +61 8 9841 6137 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
