11 Dec
2003
11 Dec
'03
7:58 a.m.
My IIgs is on the apartment Ethernet, although more or
less per kludge.
I have a Dayna EtherPrint-T box that converts LocalTalk, of which I have
a number of systems running (a Mac Plus, an old PC using an Apple ISA
card, an SE/30 and the IIgs), into EtherTalk and emits it over the main
apartment backbone. The IIgs is plugged into the LocalTalk segment and
shares files with the NetBSD server running netatalk (ironically, it's a
Mac IIci, but this should work fine with any Unix-based system with
support ... I did have to recompile the kernel to allow DDP traffic).
Note, that's netatalk, not netatalk-asun ... never used the latter.
I've done pretty much the same thing. (A schematic of my network is at
http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/~korpela/network.gif ) Unfortunately, I
have a 140GB SNAP server and PC with multigigabyte drives using PC MacLAN on
the ethernet. If either of these in on the network (the default condition)
the //gs hangs in the chooser. I assume it's because of some filesystem
size limit inherent in the //gs implementation of AFP. Anyone know of a
work around? I'd really like to back up the SCSI drive on the //gs to the
SNAP server. Some day in my copious spare time, I'll pull out a
debugger....
Eric
