Your Appletalk versions are incompatible. It is not going to work without further considerable fuss, or purchase of a beige Mac more capable than the CII, to serve as a bridge machine between the CII and anything running X.4 or higher.

There was a 68kmla thread a couple of months ago, as I recall, that went into this at some length. You need to do some digging. Further instructions on networking are also available on www.system7today.com , but they do not apply to something as lowend as the CII.

As you are interested in old Macs, I'd get a later machine to serve as a bridge. A MacOS9 machine could connect to your MacBook, and your CII could connect to your MacOS9 machine, for instance. There are other ways of doing the business, but this is probably the easiest.