Intel to Classic file sharing

I could not get these links to work:

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=301183

http://www.opendoor.com/shareway/

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106461

The following link does not appear to have anything which applies to Snow Leopard:

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT200160

I have not used AppleTalk for many years but I regularly use AppleShare over TCP/IP to access OS 9.2.2 files from Leopard.

My difficulty is that although Snow Leopard should connect in the same way I am unable to write to the files displayed.

It is a long time.

The files are web pages on a G3 with OS 9.2.2.

I normally use OSX 10.5.8 on a G5 to update them but I would like to be able to update them from a Mac Pro with OSX 10.6.8. The Mac Pro mounts a G3 folder as an external volume as the G5 does but the G3 folder on the Mac Pro is read only so I am unable to update anything.

Thanks for the useful links. I have read most of these before but it was worth reading them again.

I wish to concentrate upon AFP only for the time being.

The page at http://lowendmac.com/2018/macs-sharing-files-with-other-macs-old-or-new/ implies that:

1 - Mac OS 9.0 to 9.2.2 support connections up to Leopard and

2 - Mac OS X 10.4, 10.5, and 10.6 support connections to Mac OS 9.0 or later.

This is not inconsistent as it depends upon which Mac makes the connection.

The above is supported by the AFP table at http://www.applefool.com/se30/#afpnetwork which implies:

1 - Mac OS 9.0, 9.1, 9.2 can connect up to 10.5 by default and up to 10.10 with modifications and

2 - Tiger, Leopard & Snow Leopard can connect to Mac OS 9.0 by default.

At this time I am only interested in an AFP connection from Snow Leopard to Mac OS 9.2.2. As previously described I can connect from Snow Leopard but not write to files on Mac OS 9.2.2 which may indicate a permissions issue or something I have not set up correctly.

Any assistance with this would be appreciated.

From OSX 10.4 & 10.5 it works out of the box as long as you have enabled TCP/IP sharing on OS 9.

Just use connect to server on OSX.

You would only need to use FTP if you were on a network which inhibits AppleShare.

Today I have been trying to discover if resource forks could be the cause of my difficulties.

At first this line of investigation looked promising but I later discovered that this was only because a resource fork increases the file size.

It appears that I can only write files with a total size up to 5,006 bytes.

Does anybody have any thoughts about the likely cause of this?

I now have Leopard and various versions of Snow Leopard installed on my Mac Pro and I get the following results:

All versions can mount a remote OS 9 volume or folder. Leopard can write files to the mounted volume without any difficulty. Some versions of Snow Leopard can write some files at a first attempt but some of these appear empty or corrupted.

I eventually found I could get consistent satisfactory results by using a bash script to write about 40kB to a dummy file twice. After this further files can be written without any difficulty until the connection is terminated. Whist this is slightly tedious I can live it.

Further insights or fixes would be of interest to me.

Here is my bash script:

open 'afp://user-name:password@###.###.###.###/volume/web-pages'; sleep 1; f(){ echo {a..z}{A..Z}{z..n} > /Volumes/volume/web-pages/dummy-file; }; f; f

You are welcome put this on your other site.

I would like to find out why file sharing is not working.

Is this a known problem and if so is there a workaround?

I have not tried it from the G3 with OS 9 because it is in my box room and is not easy to access. It is used a web server which I update from other computers within my house.