[G4] AppleTalk - What for now?

[Doug McNutt]

At 09:03 -0400 8/16/05, Dale Hoffman wrote:
>What is AppleTalk good for anymore?
>Is there any advantage to activating it on a network consisting of OSX machines?

I believe AppleTalk is still present in 10.4 for the purpose of connecting to printers.

Some repairs were made between 10.4.0 and 10.4.1 to support some connectivity with peecees.

You cannot connect to any Mac with AppleTalk over Ethernet with any version of 10.4. Steve has willed it that way and it's the reason I remain at 10.3.9 and am busy learning Linux.

Consider FTP over Ethernet for moving files to and from orphaned Macs. With OS neXt and its propensity for ignoring resource forks and HFS metadata (type and creator) in favor of filename extensions you'll not lose much.


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