Networking OSX and OS9

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Me, David - 12 Sep 2007 15:21 GMT

I have a newish Mac OSX and an oldish Mac OS9, and a router that used
to network them. But now since I changed to 10.4.10 it doesn't
work.

Is there some VNC-type trick I can do? I want the OS9 Mac permanently
on the OSX desktop.

I'm grateful for advice.

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Axel Hammerschmidt - 12 Sep 2007 16:55 GMT

> I have a newish Mac OSX and an oldish Mac OS9, and a router that used
> to network them. But now - since I changed to 10.4.10 - it doesn't
> work.

Strange.

Two Macs? Why the router? They're on the same LAN.

A switch/hub should do it, using DHCP or fixed ip-addresses.

> Is there some VNC-type trick I can do?

I have a beige Power Macintosh G3 (without the mouse, keyboard or
monitor) running Mac OS 9 connected to my LAN. Mac OS 9 on the PM loads
VNC on startup (whenever I choose to start the PM) and listens, and I
can control the PM from either a PeeCee running XPee Pro, or a PB
running OS X, both with the VNC Viewer.

All free stuff.

I use Appletalk and Filesharing on the PM.

> I want the OS9 Mac permanently on the OSX desktop.

You need to boot the Mac OS 9 machine and have the OS X Mac set up to
mount the OS 9 volume when it boots. Probably in that order.

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Me, David - 13 Sep 2007 06:26 GMT

> > I have a newish Mac OSX and an oldish Mac OS9, and a router that used
> > to network them. But now - since I changed to 10.4.10 - it doesn't
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> You need to boot the Mac OS 9 machine and have the OS X Mac set up to
> mount the OS 9 volume when it boots. Probably in that order.

Sorry, I was unintentionally misleading. They both need access to the
ADSL modem, so I use a 'Repeater' to run the two into an uplink to my
broadband connection. Also I may add other machines, perhaps a PC
(shhh).

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Networking OSX and OS9