SE via Serial to PC

[HoneyDoe]

I have a null modeom comeing from ebay,

I'd like to conect my macintosh'es Mac serial to DB9, to the Null,. then to my IBM server.

I'd ecentialy like the IBM server to act as an apple talk point and be able to give use to my printer and my file server,


Is there a way this could be done? My ibm is running debian

 

[CJ_Miller]

I think it won't work as a simple serial connections between these two boxes - which IMO is stupid - it should. I looked through the tarballs of netatalk version 1 and 2 and there is no mention anywhere or LocalTalk or serial communication. I don't know why, I just don't think they ever implemented it. Maybe somebody can fork netatalk 2.2.5 and add serial to it. It's beyond my abilities.

What you will probably need to use netatalk with a LocalTalk only printer is a LocalTalk bridge. This is either a dedicated hardware or a Mac which has both ethernet and serial running a program which translates the messages and communicates them through the serial port.

I know it's not what you want to hear! LocalTalk seems to be its own protocol, and Mac serial is RS422, not the RS232 of most servers. Adapting the different types of serial is not too hard, but for whatever reason the protocol end of things seems to be black magic that nobody knows much about.

 

[HoneyDoe]

Well I found some light though this voodo,

it sounds like I can make a ppp conection with the null to the linux box, if the apple talk setting is off.

I could also use like a telnet client and tranfer files via that way, But I still kind of need some files so i can coppy to my mac.

So, I guess I go along in this crazy mess,

 

[register]

A hardware handshake null modem cable and a terminal programme on each end should do well for file transfer. More convenience you can have with applications like Stargate, providing drag and drop file transfer in watched folders (Mac and PC Freeware available, Linux support unknown). It works like a charm. A list of suggestions that may lead to something useful for you can be found here: http://www.macwindows.com/peertips.html.

The page mentioned above also guides to a method of setting up a LaserWriter Plus (serial port only) to work directly connected to a Windows computer (again, using a null modem cable). The SE could probably access a PostScript printer via Ethernet using a SCSI-Ethernet adapter.

 

[CJ_Miller]

Thanks for the link! I didn't know that one could send raw PostScript jobs over serial to a LocalTalk printer.

 

[HoneyDoe]

Augh I don't want to have to get a scsi over entherenet, but it is a postscript printer I hope.

Yeah, That guide was an intresting read....expecialy about the network file tranfer problem when antivrius is open on windows systems.


and im shure it will work in any computer the null, all you need is terminal software or something along that lines.


I think linux has one bulit in. I will be finding that out shortly, but i mainly just want a ppp conection, and im thinking If i make a ppp conection then i can shurely network or something

 

[HoneyDoe]

You know I love it how its such a pain geting softwares for thiese old systems