It’s been 30 years since IPv6 was first introduced to the world by the IETF as a solution to the IPv4 address exhaustion problem. In 2026, worldwide adoption of IPv6 by ISPs and client software vendors varies, but is not great overall.
But even for operating systems released around the time of IPv6’s introduction, we can get them speaking IPv6 and talking to the public internet without NAT!
So you want to get up and running with AppleTalk on Windows 2000? Good choice!
If you’re looking for an instruction guide to successfully connect to SQL Server from a Mac using AppleTalk, I’m afraid this isn’t it. This is documentation of efforts made to get it to work and the dead-end result.
I have a Windows 2000 Active Directory domain that had one domain controller. I added a second domain controller and performed what I thought were all necessary steps to prepare the new domain controller to be the only one in the domain. Turns out I missed a few key steps and broke my domain.
