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10.3: Easy access to AppleTalk shares in Panther
There seems to be a fundamental misunderstanding here about "Appletalk Shares". Mac OS X cannot mount AFP shares that are shared only via AppleTalk. Mac OS X can only mount AFP shares that are shared via TCP/IP. However, Mac OS X can use Appletalk browsing to find AFP servers, at which time it will use TCP/IP to actually make the connection. This differs from OS 9 which could mount AFP shares via AppleTalk or TCP/IP, though TCP/IP was much faster.
10.3: Easy access to AppleTalk shares in Panther
That's not correct; Panther can mount AFP using either TCP/IP or AppleTalk.
10.3: Easy access to AppleTalk shares in Panther
Actually, I've had no luck in connecting to my shares offered by Mac OS 7.6 machines in 10.3, when it worked fine in 10.2.
10.3: Easy access to AppleTalk shares in Panther
Try using the url form in 'Connect to Server' and it will indeed use AppleTalk to connect to the AFP server.
I use this with Windows NT Server SFM shares all the time. AppleTalk only. Yes, this is also how I do it at work. We have a Win 2000 file server which has three AppleShare volumes. Originally I used the Recent Servers aliases from the OS 9 system folder (from when this G4 was running OS9 only) and mounted the three volumes this way. They show up on the desktop. This was not using the Chooser. Then I added the mounted volumes to my startup items. The usual window pops up, which I just have to hit OK. The one thing I wouldn't do is use SMB to browse or mount Apple Shares that are on a W2K server. It messes with the file names, and you see all your invisible files. Also OS X doesn't seem to know what to do with some files, such as thinking Quark files are UNIX executables! |
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