Hi again Neil,
On 13/01/2006, at 1:00 PM, Neil Houghton wrote:
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.".
Following up my previous email:
If you try to connect to an AppleTalk-only AFP server from a Mac OS X
10.4 Tiger computer, this message will appear:
"Connection failed. This file server uses an incompatible version of
the AFP protocol. You cannot connect to it."
This happens because Tiger no longer supports connecting to AFP over
the AppleTalk protocol.
As a solution, enable the TCP/IP protocol on the AFP server if it
offers this option. If no TCP/IP option is available, connect to the
Tiger computer from the computer that is the AppleTalk-only AFP
server (instead of trying to connect from the Tiger computer to
connect to the older computer). This method works because AppleShare
client software on the older computer can connect to a Tiger computer
over TCP/IP, even if it can't offer service over TCP/IP.
Cheers,
Ronni
