On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 10:28:40AM +0100, Liam Ward wrote: > I wonder if anyone has any experience of something like this... > > Our office has a mixture of Windows and MacOS desktops. Packages to > allow the Macs to talk to the PCs are expensive ($150 per machine) so > I'm thinking of getting an old PC, putting Debian on it and setting > up shared disk space using Samba and Appletalk (netatalk) > simultaneously. > > If anyone knows of any pitfalls before I start into this I'd > appreciate some pointers.
this will work, you use samba for the legacy Win* stuff and netatalk for the legacy MacOS stuff. there is one somewhat severe problem with this, netatalk does not do proper file locking, so if a windows user and a mac user try writing to the same file at the same time it will end up corrupted. this might be delt with in newwer versions of netatalk which apparently started getting some maintainence again recently. check sourceforge for more info on the current status of netatalk. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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