Hi,
I'm trying to connect my old Mac SE/30 (6.0.8) directly to my not as old iMac G3 (9.2.2). And I'm having some issues: the connection is very unreliable, and I've never been able to share files, only start a multiplayer game of Bolo.
I'm starting to wonder if it's because I'm using a printer cable to connect the SE/40 to the AsanteTalk and not a couple of phonenet adapters with terminators like some people seem to do online. Though these people always have more than a single old Mac in their network.
The SE/30 is connected to the AsanteTalk from its printer serial connector, a printer cable to the AsanteTalk. The yellow cable connects to the iMac. The most reliable way I found to establish some sort of connection is to start the SE/30 first, then the AsanteTalk, and finally the iMac.
Starting a game of Bolo, I could only have the iMac host. I could not have it connect to a game on the SE/30. Even then, I have to try twice before the SE/30 could see the game. This part seems very consistent.
I tried sharing files from the iMac, but I could never establish a connection. In Appleshare, the iMac would often not show up, and when it did I would get an error "the connection to this server has been unexpectedly broken."
Is there something I'm doing wrong? Or is the unreliability part of the course when switching from Serial to Ethernet? Or having two machines from a very different time period?
I'm trying to connect my old Mac SE/30 (6.0.8) directly to my not as old iMac G3 (9.2.2). And I'm having some issues: the connection is very unreliable, and I've never been able to share files, only start a multiplayer game of Bolo.
I'm starting to wonder if it's because I'm using a printer cable to connect the SE/40 to the AsanteTalk and not a couple of phonenet adapters with terminators like some people seem to do online. Though these people always have more than a single old Mac in their network.
The SE/30 is connected to the AsanteTalk from its printer serial connector, a printer cable to the AsanteTalk. The yellow cable connects to the iMac. The most reliable way I found to establish some sort of connection is to start the SE/30 first, then the AsanteTalk, and finally the iMac.
Starting a game of Bolo, I could only have the iMac host. I could not have it connect to a game on the SE/30. Even then, I have to try twice before the SE/30 could see the game. This part seems very consistent.
I tried sharing files from the iMac, but I could never establish a connection. In Appleshare, the iMac would often not show up, and when it did I would get an error "the connection to this server has been unexpectedly broken."
Is there something I'm doing wrong? Or is the unreliability part of the course when switching from Serial to Ethernet? Or having two machines from a very different time period?