If you are like me (and let's face it, if you are reading this, you probably are), you have at least one Mac running OS 8 or 9 and another running OS X. If you want to transfer files between the two, you may have experienced this:

The Mac OS X machine acts as the server, and you are trying to transfer files to or from the client OS 9 machine. After you get about a megabyte transfered, the OS X machine unexpected disconnects, and you are left holding the bag with a few partially transfered and corrupted files...

So how do you fix this problem? I've spent what seems like forever trying to figure out how to fix it, and I almost always settle on a workaround like enabling File Sharing on the OS 9 box and connecting to it from the OS X box. That works, but it isn't always ideal. And then one day when I was just fooling around, I found this page on Apple's support site.

The article purports to be for OS X Server on 10.4.9, but I have conclusively demonstrated that the solution proposed in this article also works for bog-standard Mac OS X 10.4.10 (not the server version). Since applying the "defaults method" to my OS X machine, I have yet to have an OS 9 client disconnect while transfering files.

Much better!

Hope that helps.
Peace,
Drew
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