Here’s a good question that perhaps someone can answer:

“My name is Ivan, I work in a music education lab at Miami Dade College where we are facing a serious problem. Some of the programs we run are outdated OS 9 programs, where developers have either sold the company, or show no intention of porting them to Mac OS 10.5. My dilemma is that the college is upgrading all the computers to new the new iMacs, this completely cripples the lab I work in as far as student education is concerned, none of the programs we have are going to be able to run on the new OS. While sheepshaver has allowed us to run OS 9 effectively, the licensing agreements for the programs only allow us to run them over a network using a server. While using ‘Slirp’ has allowed us to connect to the internet and access some files over the network, sheepshaver gives me the error message, “The file server’s connection has unexpectedly closed down” when I attempt to connect to the lab server. At first I assumed that it was a server problem until I was able to connect to it using another computer running OS X, unfortunately the other computer was not running sheepshaver. My question: is there anything I can do to fix this? I tried using ’slirp’ and the ‘basilisk II slirp’ but with no results. Does anyone have any ideas?”

Answer it over here.