Marsha wrote: > [posted and mailed] > > Mac wrote in news:B89EECB7.99A%mgrunner@mac.com: > > > i found out, that thereīs no more apple talk > > supported for serial ports under osx well i donīt have an ethernet card > > in my Iigs either and donīt want to buy one... > > You could try an old Fastpath or GatorBox router and connect Ethertalk (Mac > on ethernet) to Apple/Localtalk on the GS. I've done it on 8.6, but I > don't have OSX There is a major show stopper: Mac OS X no longer supports the use of AFP over AppleTalk in its role as a server for file sharing. It only supports AFP over TCP/IP. This means that old Macs which don't have a recent enough version of the AppleShare client (and the IIgs) cannot connect to a machine running Mac OS X. Mac OS X 10.1 and later can be a client using AFP over AppleTalk, so you can connect to Mac OS 8.6 or earlier acting as a server (or Mac OS 9.x which doesn't have TCP/IP file sharing enabled). This doesn't help in the case of a IIgs, since it is a client-only implementation of AFP. The situation may be different with Mac OS X Server, but the data sheet for it only mentions AFP over TCP/IP in its list of server protocols. -- David Empson dempson@actrix.gen.nz In article <1f85rvl.18ympo31ks1ghsN%dempson@actrix.gen.nz>, David Empson wrote: > Marsha wrote: > > > [posted and mailed] > > > > Mac wrote in news:B89EECB7.99A%mgrunner@mac.com: > > > > > i found out, that thereīs no more apple talk > > > supported for serial ports under osx well i donīt have an ethernet card > > > in my Iigs either and donīt want to buy one... > > > > You could try an old Fastpath or GatorBox router and connect Ethertalk (Mac > > on ethernet) to Apple/Localtalk on the GS. I've done it on 8.6, but I > > don't have OSX > > There is a major show stopper: Mac OS X no longer supports the use of > AFP over AppleTalk in its role as a server for file sharing. It only > supports AFP over TCP/IP. By default, OS X supports AFP over TCP/IP but somewhere in 10.1.x AppleTalk support was added back in. I've had OS X happily working as a server for Macs running System 6 onwards but physically can't get to my IIgs to test it out. A good starting point for configuring OS X is at http://www.euronet.nl/users/mvdk/osx.html. As others have said, AppleTalk is only supported on the ethernet interface for OS X so a LocalTalk router of some kind will be needed for the IIgs or IIe. Phil