Author Topic: Using OS 9.2.2 or OSX 10.4.11 as server/filesharing  (Read 3015 times)

Offline Roman78

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Using OS 9.2.2 or OSX 10.4.11 as server/filesharing
« on: May 24, 2019, 12:37:34 AM »
Sometime I use some older Apple hardware. Today i tried a PowerMac 7200/90 running MacOS8.0. Now i wanted to transfer some files from and to a Computer which is contented to the internet. After some try and Failing (Diskdrive, ZIP and NAS) i came to the conclusion to use a OS9.2.2 or maybe OSX 10.4.11 as a Fileserver. Just to connect the OS8 computer to the network and connect it to one of those 2.

But how? I could not find any useful information about folder sharing on OS9.

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Re: Using OS 9.2.2 or OSX 10.4.11 as server/filesharing
« Reply #1 on: May 25, 2019, 07:54:22 PM »
you would probably want to use 9.22 for sharing to OS8, I dont think there was any support in Tiger for OS8-era filesharing. but i am probably not the best person to answer that as all my stuff is 9.2 or later.

as I recall, you had to enable file sharing in the control panel for it, and then, you do a command-I for get info on the thing you want to share, and there was an option to enable sharing for the folder in that info window.
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Re: Using OS 9.2.2 or OSX 10.4.11 as server/filesharing
« Reply #2 on: May 26, 2019, 10:06:50 PM »
It worked. At least from OS 9.2.2. From 10.4 it didn't indeed.

It's easier than expected and almost self explaining. But somehow it shared my hole drives and not the share folder i wanted to share. But anyhow it worked.