Hi...

I am trying to network a OS 9 Mac from a Mac X 10.4.8. I am getting this error message:

"Connection Failed: This file server uses an incompatible version of the AFP protocol. You cannot connect to it."

I had got this message earlier, but I rebooted OS X machine and the connection worked OK. I did the reboot three times after this one but the problem has not fixed itself. I expect that the Mac OS X is backward compatible.

I also checked the Network System preferences for Ethernet and have it at DHCP etc... BTW, I used the straight Ethernet cable in both the instances above.

Any help will be appreciated very much

FiL

Mate Try this

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=301183

Cheers
Jeremy

Unfortunately 10.4 doesn't support the old AFP protocol, only AFP over TCP/IP. You can enable support for this in OS9, but only for connecting from the OS9 machine, and not to it.

Thanks for the reference to the article, Jeremy. I followed the following steps:

1. In the OS 9 Mac, I opened the File Sharing Control panel.

2. In the "Start/Stop" tab I checked the 2 boxes: Enable File Sharing & Program Linking clients to connect over TCP/IP. This gave me a URL: afp://x.x.x.x/ as its server address.

3. I keyed this afp://x.x.x.x/ server address into the "Connect to Server" under the "Go" menu of the OS X 10.4.8.

4. I clicked on "Connect" and I got the Login window to select the HD and enter the password for the OS 9 Mac. The OS 9 Mac server mounts without a problem.

Note:
When I clicked "Browse" in the "Connect to Server" window, I get the Finder window with the network name of the OS 9 Mac server. When I connect to it from the Finder window, I get the same "Connection failed" error message that I mentioned about in my earlier post. This is misleading because it does not suggest the alternative way of connecting to the same server using the steps 1 to 4 above.

Hope this helps...

FiL

How did you go mate