In 2003, the University of Minnesota will be discontinuing the use of Appletalk within the University. Information on why as well basic information for users on how to deal with macs without appletalk is available from OIT.

The information on these pages is here to assist those associated with the Department of Geology and Geophysics in the transition. Basically, all macintosh tasks which have to do with the Chooser are going away. This includes printing to appletalk printers, and file sharing through the chooser. File sharing over TCP/IP will still be available, and instructions on how to do that can be found here and on the File server page.

The PAS printing System in the Department is already set to use TCP/IP, so nothing needs to be done to any machines to keep printing to the PAS printers.

If people are printing to other printers using the chooser, the printers will have to be converted to TCP/IP - LPR printing. Some basic instructions are available at http://www1.umn.edu/oit/ipx-appletalk/macOSPrinting.shtml, but it's best if the SysAdmin comes and takes a look at the printer, to make sure that it's capable of this kind of printing, and to make sure it gets set up correctly.

There is extensive documentation on how to access the department file server at http://www.geo.umn.edu/computer/file_server.html.

Howerver, a brief overview will be given here.
The chooser will look a bit different without appletalk; The list of machines are missing on the right side, once appletalk is selected.

To access the files on a different computer, choose the AppleShare icon in the left panel, and then click on the Server IP Address ... button in the lower right hand corner of the dialog.

Type in the server name or the IP address, and click Connect.
After that, things look much the same as before:

Once the connection has been made, you can create a shortcut to the drive by clicking on it once to select it, and then go to File / Make Alias (quick key: Apple-M). It will also show up in your list of Recent Servers under the apple menu for a period of time.

To access an IP based file server you will need to have at least Mac OS 7.6.1. You will also need the IP address or hostname for the file server and the login information for that file server.

If this is not a machine run by the Department, the System Administrator may or may not have that information. Check with the owner of the computer. or see Below for instructions on how to do it.

The process is much the same as for accessing the departmental file server. In the chooser, click on Server IP Address ... .

If you know the name of the machine, or the IP address, type it in. The name will most likely need to be followed by ".geo.umn.edu".

Again, the login screen will appear. This username and password are set on the machine you're trying to access, and have nothing to do with departmental accounts, or X.500 (central e-mail) accounts. Talk to the owner of the machine in question.

Open up the File Sharing control panel, found under the Apple in the upper left hand corner -> Control Panels -> File Sharing.

Click on the Users and Groups Tab.

Next, create a username and password for the user who is going to be accessing files on your machine. On the Users and Groups tab, click on New User

Type in a username and a password

Then, choose Sharing where it says Show: Identity:

Select Allow user to connect to this computer

REPEAT this step for EACH user who will be accessing your machine. It is against the University and the Departmental Acceptable Use policies to share accounts or passwords. Shared passwords can result in loss of network privilages.

Next, disable the Guest account.

Again, on the users and groups tab,

Choose the Guest account, and click on Open.

Select Sharing under the Show Pick list, and make sure Allow guests to connect... is NOT selected.

Now, no one but users with the correct username and password can access your machine.

Now, return to the Start/Stop tab:

The Owner name should already be filled in, but if not, fill it in with the account you created using the "New User" tool.

The password should likewise already be filled in.

The Computer Name may or may not be filled in, but this is the name which will be entered in the "Server IP Address.... box, so choose something simple, and with only alphanumeric characters (numbers and letters, no punctuation etc.). This name should also be reported to the System Adminsitrator, so she can synch it with the university records. This will result in fewer strange errors after Appletalk goes away.

Also report the IP Address, which should also be filled in. If it is not, ask the System Administrator which number to use.

In the next section, click on Enable File Sharing Clients to connect over TCP/IP. This is the critical bit, because without it, the Mac will only try to use Appletalk.

Then click on Start File Sharing.
You may get a message which says

"Appletalk must be turned on to use file sharing. It is currently off. Would you like to turn Appletalk on now?"
This is an unfortunate bit of coding on Apple's part. The code necessary to use TCP/IP file sharing is embedded in the Appletalk filesharing code, so some versions of the OS must have Appletalk on anyway to use TCP/IP. Click on OK and you should be good to go.