[X-Unix] Connecting Sys. 8.6 to Panther via Either net / AppleTalk

[Doug McNutt]

At 11:45 -0500 8/22/05, David Gilden wrote:
>afp://computer_name_runing_8_6  

I believe that form will attempt to connect over IP. Connection via IP needs to be enabled on the 8.6 machine and I'm not sure that's possible without ShareWay software. It is OK with OS 9.

The IP of the 8.6 machine should show up in the TCP/IP control panel but it may not be assigned. If you're using a local router - Linksys or the like  with DHCP - you need to access something that uses IP before an address will be assigned. Better to turn off DHCP and assign local IP addresses 192.168.0.xxx manually.

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mkdir  /Volumes/diskname
mount_afp  afp://at/username:password@computer_name_runing_8_6/diskname   /Volumes/diskname

is what I use with a mount request as a cli command. Note the additional /at/ which is a request to use AppleTalk over ethernet. It has been purposely disabled in Tiger, but is OK on Panther and Jaguar.

To confirm connectivity try connecting to the OS neXt box from 8.6 with Chooser --> AppleShare. It's usually easier that way.


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