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Hi I’m trying to transfer files from my macintosh performa (OS 7.6) to an iMac g3 powerpc (OS 9.2). The computers are connected directly via a crossover cable and I have file sharing on and program linking on for both. I have set both computer’s IP addresses (the shared one to 10.0.0.2 and the one receiving files to 10.0.0.1) and the net mask (255.255.255.252). I have my users access privileges set to “everyone” and on my iMac I have checked the box marked “enable file sharing clients to connect over TCP/IP”. However, I do not see the same checkbox on my performa so I figured having TCP/IP active on my performa was enough to allow access. The issue is that I can only share files to my performa and not to my iMac. When I go to the chooser control panel on my performa I can input the iMac IP address and everything works fine. However, when I do the same on my iMac and input my performa’s IP address it hits me with the “no response from the server” error. What am I doing wrong?
Heres what I found: AppleShare simply didn’t work on my computer. I read somewhere that it may be because I had to install an app (Shareway IP) on OS 7.6 to allow me to use AppleShare via TCP/IP. Instead, I chose to go the FTP route. To do this I installed an FTP server onto an OSX laptop via terminal commands and connected both computers to an ethernet switch. Then I opened fetch on my OS 7.6 computer and under the hostname I put the OSX computer’s IP number. Under username and password I used the OSX’s user information. Then I simply dragged and dropped all the files I needed to be put onto the OSX computer! It definitely wasn’t as fun as trying to wrangle a bunch of old hardware but it was certainly simpler.
