[G4] Panther or Tiger?

[Alex Hurst]

Perry and Doug wrote:

>  >What is it that's not working with Tiger and AppleTalk?
>
>It all reminds me of Henry Ford's six year automobile and the 
>Wonderful One Horse Shay.

Doug - for the benefit of us ignoramuses on this side of the Pond, 
could we have a slightly expanded version of the story. TIA.

>Apple deliberately disabled AppleTalk except for printers in 10.4.0. 
>In 10.4.1 they put it back for Windoze SMB but not for old Macs.
>
I still use my SE/30 as a file server and upon installing Tiger it 
stopped working..  Apple did publish a technote on it but didn't put 
it on the net until the day Tiger was released. I, like a fool, 
attended the show put on by the local Apple dealer and bought 10.4. I 
installed and then had to back out to keep my SE/30 running.

FWIW I have a beige G3 and a Pismo Powerbook (both OS 9.2.2) sharing 
quite happily with a Panther powered G4 Sawtooth via an Ethernet and 
a USB hub. Took a little tweaking to get everything working, but 
thanks to this group I got there.

I, too, would have upgraded to Tiger but for the lock-out of older Macs.

My beef now is that a lot of new software is geared to Tiger only, 
but OTOH, I have almost all the software I could possibly need, and 
it all works fine.

Best

Alex

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