[G4] AppleTalk - What for now?

[Dennis B. Swaney]

So who is correct? In order to connect my Rev B iMac running 9.2 and 
my G4 iMac running OS X, I have to have Appletalk active on both. 
According to John, it can be done, but according to Doug it can't!

At 12:24 PM -0700 8/16/05, John Baltutis wrote:
>On 08/16/05, "Dennis B. Swaney" <romad at nvwisp.com> wrote:
>>
>>  At 9:03 AM -0400 8/16/05, Dale Hoffman wrote:
>>>What is AppleTalk good for anymore?
>>
>>  Well, in my case, it is the only way that I can connect my Rev B iMac
>>  running 9.x to my G4 iMac running 10.3.9. So that means I've reached
>>  the end of my OS X updating since 10.4.x does not support AppleTalk.
>
>Where did you get that idea? SysPrefs->Network->Built-in
>Ethernet->AppleTalk (activate or disable, as desired).
>



At 2:02 PM -0600 8/16/05, Doug McNutt wrote:
>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.

-- 
Sincerely,
Dennis B. Swaney

"Windows is a command-line OS with a GUI shell while Mac System 10 is 
... oh, never mind."