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BillfromQueenstown wrote:

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"The problem is that macOS no longer supports AFP (Apple Filing

Protocol), which is what macOS 9 uses for file sharing. It's a pity,

really, because AFP was much better than SMB in my opinion.

So you have a few choices:

1. FTP (as the other poster noted). You'd need to run an FTP client on one machine, like Fetch, and an FTP server on one machine. I don't know if OSX still ships with an FTP server. This won't mount the drives, but will allow file transfers. Any files with resource forks will have to be encoded before transfer (for any other than AFP solutions).
2. Run an old 3rd party SMB server on the macOS 9 app and hope that macOS 12 supports it.
3. Run Dave or DoubleTalk on the old Mac and try to connect to the new Mac.
4. Install Netatalk on the macOS 12 machine

I haven't done any of this in years, so I have no idea what would

work best. I would probably try Netatalk first if you don't want to use

FTP

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Monterey still has an AFP 3 client. It’s the AFP server that is long gone from macOS.

What I’d do is run Netatalk on a Linux or NetBSD host somewhere on

your local network, and then connect to it from your OS9 and macOS

systems. If you build it with Zeroconf support service discovery will

work on macOS, but you may have to connect to it using the IP address of

the host on OS9.

You can check out my Netatalk fork which have stable releases that have been tested on modern Linux distros. https://github.com/rdmark/Netatalk-2.x

Edit: Actually, since you don’t need legacy AppleTalk for really old Macs in your use case, you don’t even

need to use my Netatalk fork. The mainline Netatalk 3.1 is perfectly

adequate. Just install the downstream netatalk package that is supplied

by the Linux or *BSD distro.

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If Monterey has an AFP client, can't they just turn on file

sharing on the MacOS 9 machine? I think MacOS 9 can do AFP-over-IP,

although my memory isn't what it once was.

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It’s worth a try, but as mentioned elsewhere the OS9 AFP authentication methods may not be compatible with Monterey. Sure you can use Guest but then you can’t transfer files from the modern system to the old Mac. If that limitation is ok you’re probably golden though.

If you do go down the Netatalk route, the UAM (user authentication method) module you want to use is DHX2, which is OSX / macOS compatible.”

Maybe there is something in all that which is helpful?

Maybe you could use sneakernet via FAT (MBR) disks if that old Mac supports USB.

AFAIK System 9 does not support exFAT or GUID and Sequoia does not support APM partition scheme although both support MacOS Extended format.

Rudegar wrote:

you can also try going down the setting one of them up as a FTP server, it's an old std. which is still supported by newer computers.

Old is right.

The original specification (RFC 114) is from April 1971 – the days of the ARPAnet, before the Internet and Internet protocols even existed. FTP was later adapted to run over Internet protocols. That was in June 1980, and so the Internet version of FTP is roughly 45 years old!

So using ping either way doesn’t work?

you can also try going down the setting one of them up as a FTP server, it's an old std. which is still supported by newer computers.