Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!yale!mintaka!mit-eddie!uw-beaver!cornell!rochester!pt.cs.cmu.edu!o.gp.cs.cmu.edu!andrew.cmu.edu!jh4o+ From: jh4o+@andrew.cmu.edu (Jeffrey T. Hutzelman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 Subject: Re: AppleShare on a //gs Message-ID: Date: 19 Sep 90 17:15:30 GMT References: <2603@idunno.Princeton.EDU> Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Lines: 32 In-Reply-To: <2603@idunno.Princeton.EDU> Kent, It looks like you've done everything correctly. I went through the same steps to get AppleTalk up and running on my IIgs here at CMU. However, you may have to do one thing further, as I did - contact your school's computing department (whoever's in charge of the network), and ask them to turn on your AppleTalk connection. While this is not neccessary everywhere, it is quite possible that your school only turns on AppleTalk connections where there is something connected. At CMU, we use the same wall connectors to implement AppleTalk (PhoneNet), Token Ring, and LattisNet (ethernet), so we not only have to say we want the outlet turned on, but also which network to use. As far as requiring AppleShare 2.0: The servers may need to be running AppleShare 2.0 for you to see them; they may not. I don't know. However, there are two things I do know: 1.) The server software may affect whether and which servers you see, but not whether you see printers and/or zones. 2.) If you want to boot off of a server, they have to install various software, including GS/OS, on the server you want to boot from. The ability to boot from a server is a great idea for classroom situations, and one that Apple was smart to build into the IIgs (note that Mac's can't do this; there is no such thing as a "diskless" Mac), but it is not very useful for someone in your situation, due to confilicts that occur when several users who want different DA's, INIT's, etc. all using essentially the same system disk. Good luck, and enjoy what little you can get out of AppleTalk on a mostly-Mac network :(. ----------------- Jeffrey Hutzelman America Online: JeffreyH11 Internet/BITNET:jh4o+@andrew.cmu.edu, jhutz@drycas.club.cc.cmu.edu >> Apple // Forever!!! <<