How to Know Your iPod Model
If you have an old iPod but aren't sure exactly which model it is, check the info at the Web page linked below. You'll find lots of photos and information that will help you determine exactly which model you have.
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It looks to me as if Apple File Protocol over IP is no longer available if you're trying to share files with a pre-OS X Mac.
On MacVoices (Oct 20) you suggested that, even though Appletalk was gone, that was OK because it was probably still possible to use afp back to an OS 8.6-era machine.
I've tried it with an OS 9.1 Mac and a 10.6.1 Mac Pro, connected directly or via a router, and it no longer works. I had no problems in Leopard.
From the old Mac, trying to connect as client gives me: "This file server uses an incompatible version of the AFP protocol. You cannot connect to it. Please contact the server's administrator."
From the Mac Pro as client, I get: "Connection failed. There was an error connecting to the server x.x.x.x", plus advice about checking the IP and contacting that all-knowing system administrator.
Are you saying it can be done?
If so, and it's in the ebook, I'll buy it!
Cheers,
Chris Adams.
I haven't used Mac OS 8 or 9 for a few years, and don't have a test system left to test with!
That Utah site is very interesting (thanks!) for vintage Mac fans, but it's from 2006 and deals with the anticipated demise (then) of AppleTalk. The advice is to migrate to IP. That worked, and still does if you're connecting to 10.5.x or earlier. But 10.6 must have closed the option.
One of the Utah links was to ShareWay IP 3, which is an enhanced version of OS 9's file-sharing (seems Apple licenced the ShareWay code). I'll try that, in case it gets me a later version that 10.6 will accept.
[LATER]
Nope, still the same problem with ShareWay.
This is fixed with 10.6.2!
Snow Leopard can now connect as a client to my old OS 9.1 Mac and mount its volumes.
It still doesn't work the other way round -- the old Mac can't be a client to the OS X server. But that's not really important.
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