[mlwhitt]

I work for a fortune 500 company that primarily uses WinTel systems, but we have a design department that has Mac equipment (thank goodness for small mircles). They are networked to corp. network via TCP/IP. They also have Appletalk enabled to allow the Macs to see each other. All systems are currently running OS 9.1.

We are having problems with a few of the machines slowing down majorly when they attempt to share files via AppleTalk. One additional piece of info is that they are using Dave to be able to see in the Windows Servers.

Can anyone tell me if there are any best practices for using Appletalk in conjunction with TCP/IP under OS 9.1 and what problems that I might look for to explain the slowness that we are seeing.

Thanks,
Michael

[John Strung]

Try doing your file sharing using TCP/IP instead of AppleTalk. Open the file sharing control panels of all the Macs and check the box for "enable file sharing over TCP/IP". Then when you connect, instead of double clicking on the machine name in the Chooser window, hit the IP address button in chooser and type in the IP address of the computer you are trying to connect to.

You can tell if you are connected by TCP/IP by closely examining the desktop icon of the remote computer. If you are connected by TCP/IP there will be a small globe at the bottom right of the icon. (You could also do a "GetInfo" on the icon by highlighting it and typing command-i).

To avoid having to retype the IP address each time, just make an alias of the desktop icon of the remote computer by dragging it while holding down the command and option keys.

[CIA]

Are you using OSX or OS9? 10/100/1000 or just 10/100 (or old school 10BT?)

[rhansen_x]

Instead of Dave, you could try to use GroupLogic's ExtremeZ-IP.