Connect pi to netatalk wifi9/20/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() A2Server won’t install on the latest version of Raspian because the version of Netatalk it brings in, no longer compiles under the latest Raspian. I couldn’t get A2Server to work in this way. Connecting the Apple IIGS to the Raspberry Pi For the Apple IIGS, it would look like it was seeing files on the Mac Pro. The Apple IIGS would connect to the Raspberry Pi, and that in turn would connect to the Mac Pro. Since I couldn’t do this directly, with some suggestions from the community, I decided to use a Raspberry Pi as a gateway. What I wanted was to share the contents of a folder on the Mac Pro to the IIGS. There are other flavours of A2Server however they tend to rely on sharing contents of a filesystem (or part thereof) on the local machine. When I was using the uBuntu box, I’d used a package called A2Server to install a version of Netatalk that would allow the fileserver to pretend to be an old Mac supporting AppleTalk over TCP. Sadly, some time in the distant past, Apple chose to remove support for AppleTalk from macOS, so you can’t just hook up your Apple IIGS to the network (via the wonderful Uthernet II) and ask GS/OS to connect (using AFPBridge these days) to the Mac like we used to back in the day. I used to have all this working on an uBuntu file server but I recently seized the opportunity to swap it for the silent running Mac Pro that has been collecting dust in my office. This blog is my way of documenting a process I went through to build a gateway that would allow my Apple IIGS to have access to an area of my fileserver (an old 2008 Mac Pro running macOS El-Capitan) using AppleTalk. ![]()
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