[X4U] Argh!!! Classic Appletalk Shares

[Richard Gilmore]

Sorry for being a little dense on this but it looks like Tiger can still
connect to an OS9 machine through TCP/IP as opposed to AppleTalk? Or will it
just not support any classic networking anymore? I've got a huge collection
of stuff on an OS9 machine. I'm at 10.3.5 but if I can no longer access this
machine with Tiger then I won't be upgrading.

Can anyone clarify?

Thanx

Richard 


On 5/3/05 8:11 PM, "Doug McNutt" <douglist at macnauchtan.com> wrote:

> The failure of Tiger to connect using AppleTalk over Ethernet appears to be
> deliberate and not a bug that Apple will fix. It is truly disappointing in
> that it means that I cannot upgrade to Tiger without upgrading a bunch of
> other hardware and it just isn't worth it. It's probably Linux everywhere for
> me.
> 
>> From <http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106461#sec4> :
> 
>> Mac OS 8, Mac OS 9, and Mac OS X 10.1 to 10.3.9 support file sharing (AFP)
>> connections over AppleTalk. However, Mac OS X versions 10.0 to 10.0.4 and
>> 10.4 and later can only connect to AppleShare over TCP/IP.
>> 
>> If you want to connect from versions 10.1 to 10.3.9 to Mac OS 8 sharing
>> (which is AppleTalk only), be sure to enable AppleTalk as described in steps
>> 5 and 6 in Section II, above. Mac OS 9 and Mac OS X can both connect over
>> TCP/IP without AppleTalk, so this step is optional in the absence of Mac OS
>> 8.
>> 
>> Mac OS X 10.4 and later don't support Personal File Sharing (or other AFP)
>> over Appletalk, though by initiating the connection from the opposite
>> direction you could still achieve an IP connection from a Mac OS 8 computer
>> to a sharing Mac OS X computer. The Network preference pane in Mac OS X 10.4
>> and later still offers the AppleTalk checkbox, but it is for browsing
>> AppleTalk-advertised resources and zones. The subsequent connection must be
>> over TCP/IP.
> 
> Last modified on April 28  -  one day before I wasted my $128.