[plug] modern apple file sharing for linux

[Shayne O'Neill]

Yep. The Guild is a mac environment with OS8 and OS9 clients....

netatalk is the package your looking at, and it functions brilliantly.
A bit of a wierdo to setup tho. Read the docs, or email me.



On Mon, 2 Sep 2002, Craig Ringer wrote:

> Hi all
> Does anybody on PLUG currently work in an environment with MacOS 9
> clients and linux file servers? If so, I'd be interested in hearing what
> server software you're using. I'm finding netatalk totally insufficient,
> trying to work directly off a network volume with Photoshop or Quark
> results in all sorts of nasty errors.
>
> If anybody has tried out Darwin or Darwin/x86 - any comments there with
> regards to AppleTalk? Is AppleTalk networking included in Darwin or is
> it a MacOS X only thing? I've been wondering for some time if Darwin
> could be used to give Linux AppleTalk networking a bit of a kick. It
> sure needs one.
>
> So - anybody have any experiences in this area?
>
> BTW the reason I ask is because I'm stuck with macs running MacOS 7 and
> (*blech*) 9 (*blech*) on our LAN, and currently I'm having to use an NT4
> box to serve files to them. I'd love to be able to move to linux since
> the NT4 is... well ... NT4 - plus its a little quirky. An apple file
> server is not an option unless they offer server software packages for
> linux, I can't get an actual apple server nor do I particularly want to.
>
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