Network Oddness — #6

Post #6 by mac2geezer

Source Forum	68kMLA
Category	Networking
Post Date	Wed, 8 Apr 2009 - 17:52
Original URL	https://68kmla.org/bb/threads/network-oddness.17083/

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As far as I know, Shareway IP has absolutely no effect on connecting to a X.4+ machine from a machine running MacOS 7-9. Shareway IP works the other way, allowing connection from the newer to the older machine. Open Transport is what works the particular magic mentioned, and not Shareway IP.
What you do seemingly have to do in order to connect from the older machine to a X.4 share is to enter the IP address of the target machine in that little box at the bottom. Merely choosing it in the old way in the Chooser leads to a networking error. Or so it is on all my machines. Even aliases are flaky, but the IP allows consistent connections.

It is odd that entering the IP in your case doesn't do the trick. Router, perchance? Go through a hub?

I stand corrected. My 7300 running 7.6.1 required OT 1.1.2 and Appleshare Client 3.8 to connect to the iMac running 10.4.11, but required Shareway IP to connect the other way. It had been a couple of years since I went through that whole exercise until again today. In any case, Dan at System7Today says that the system works even better with 10.5 than 10.4; I have no experience with 10.5 so can't comment on that.