Re: Networking a Lisa from Philip Lord on 2006-02-05 (lisalist1)

From: Philip Lord <philip_at_email.domain.hidden>
Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2006 12:08:19 +0900

Thanks James,
I will try to connect the Lisa to another mac with an older system. See if this helps.

I have tried to see the Lisa from the Wallstreet side but nothing appears in the chooser. I will double check again that sharing on the Lisa side is on.

Thanks again for the info, I will let you all know how I go.

Phil

On Feb 6, 2006, at 8:17 AM, James MacPhail wrote:

>> I have a hacked (not by me) localtalk connector
>>
>> The lisa is running OS 6.0.8, and the Wallstreet is running 9.2.
>>
>> when using the chooser I can see the Wallstreet, I can even
>> attempt to
>> connect, and the Lisa displays a list of Wallstreet volumes.
>
>
> I think this indicates you do have (more or less) appropriate software
> installed and your hacked localtalk connector is working.
>
>
>> However, when I try to fully connect, nothing happens!!!
>>
>> Trying the same thing on the Lisa under OS 7.0.1 causes the system to
>> crash with the error:
>>
>> "Sorry, a system error occurred. "Chooser" divide by zero"
>
>
> I have observed a similar issue with various computers running system
> software pre MacOS 8, including a MacPlus, and IIsi.
>
> I believe the reason is that Apple implemented a new "User
> Authentication
> Module" around the time of Mac OS 8 to improve security, and for
> whatever
> reason, it is not fully backwards-compatible (or perhaps you need
> to find
> just the right version of the AppleShare Workstation Software).
>
> Searching around on Apple's web site, I found various technotes
> including
> this one:
>
> <http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=30497>
>
> Which says, in part:
>
> "Computers that are running system software earlier than system
> software
> 7.5.1 should run AppleShare Workstation 3.5. Computers that are
> running
> system software 7.5.1 or later (up to but not including 7.5.3)
> should run
> AppleShare Workstation 3.6.5."
>
> Of course any particular version won't necessarily work on the
> Lisa, but it
> gives you a limit as to how new a version is worth trying.
>
> If you do find a particular combination of system software and
> AppleShare
> software that does allow you to mount a MacOS 9 volume on your
> Lisa, please
> let us know!
>
> Suggestions:
>
> I find that the newer system versions can mount volumes shared by
> the older
> versions. ie. if you run System 7.x on your Lisa, and turn on file
> sharing,
> you may be able to mount it on the Wallstreet.
>
> Alternately, I use an older computer running System 7.5.5 as a file
> server.
> I then mount a volume from this on both older and newer computers,
> and use
> it to transfer files between them. Since I change configurations
> often, I
> find the extra hop is less trouble than fiddling with file sharing
> in each
> new configuration.
>
> HTH,
>
> James
>
> James MacPhail "Think not of engineering as art,
> uo957_at_email.domain.hidden but of art as engineering"
> Sigma Seven Systems Ltd.
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>
>
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