[butchfoote]

Does anyone know why ( or how to get around ) the fact that Apple changed OS X 10.4 and on so that it cannot talk to an OS 9 system on the same network over AFP.

In our net we have an FP iMac, original iMac, an HP Window XP PC and an OS 9 Powerbook G3 (Wallstreet). From my FP iMac, I could drop files into folders on any of the others.

With Tiger, I can no longer see the Powerbook and get a silly message from OS X 10.4 that tells me that it has a version of AFP that is not compatible with my computer.

Any suggestions?

TIA

[Detrius]

I think somewhere along the lines of 10.2, OS 9's default AFP capabilities lost the ability to connect to OS X AFP servers. The solution is to get the AppleShare extension out of Classic and install it on your OS 9 machines.

Check out:

/System/Library/CoreServices/Classic Startup.app/Contents/Resources/English.lproj/SystemFiles/OptionalFiles/AppleShare

If you use classic, you could also just swipe the extension from the Classic System Folder.