Yes and No. Samba is for SMB networking, basically for Windows
networking. Macintoshes don't do Windows networking without additional
software, such as DAVE.
- To use the built in Macintosh networking software, use Netatalk.
- If you already have Samba running and don't want to mess with
Netatalk, use DAVE
and connect via Samba.
-Bob Burton
IT Consultant
Literati Information Technology, LLC
>Would Samba not be another solution all together? We use SAMBA running on an
>SGI Origin 2000 farm here which allows our graphics team to access the image
>database. They mount the SGI array as a network drive....
>
>
>Comments?
>
>
>Steven L. Curry
>NOC Unix Engineer
>NonStopNet, Inc.
>http://www.nonstopnet.com
>Phone: 510-376-5309
>
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Robert Burton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>Sent: Wednesday, May 31, 2000 12:20 PM
>To: Red Hat List
>Subject: Re: RedHat and Apple
>
>
>>I've recompiled my kernel to include netatalk but I'm finding it difficult
>>to locate answers to some basic questions. From what I can gather, netatalk
>>is a way to communicate between nfs and hfs via AppleTalk? What I want to
>do
>>is use my Linux machine as a file server for one of my Macs but I'd prefer
>>to connect via TCP/IP. Is it possible to mount a linux network drive on my
>>Mac or mount a Mac drive on my linux box? Does anyone have any experience
>>networking Macs and Linux boxes?
>>
>
>It is entirely possible to mount a Linux drive on a Mac, and this is what
>Netatalk allows you to do. I do it daily, for several drive resources
>actually. To mount a Mac drive on a Linux box I think you would need
>AppleTalk clients for Linux, which I'm not sure if there are any. But you
>could run Thursby's DAVE or MacNFS on the Mac and mount it on Linux that
>way. But Netatalk would be the opensource, free way.
>
>Netatalk has nothing to do with NFS or HFS. It simply runs AppleTalk file
>and print serving services on Linux (or other Unixes). You can't get rid
>of AppleTalk, I believe AppleTalk IP just uses AppleTalk over TCP/IP, but
>AppleTalk still has been to running on the Mac.
>
>I used the RPM: netatalk-1.4b2+asun2.1.3-4.i386.rpm (this may be older)
>Then edited a few files in /etc/atalk
>
>Here's a mailing list archive URL:
> http://www.umich.edu/~rsug/netatalk/archive/
>
>Couple other URLs:
> http://thehamptons.com/anders/netatalk/
> http://www.linuxworld.com/linuxworld/lw-1999-04/lw-04-uptime_p.html
>
>Hope that helps.
>
>-Bob Burton
>IT Consultant
>Literati Information Technology, LLC
>
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