On Thursday 17 October 2002 09:55 am, you wrote:
"Netatalk lets a Macintosh see a Linux box. To do the reverse (have the Linux box see the Mac) you need to install the afpfs module"
[ from: http://www.anders.com/projects/netatalk/ ]
however, it seems afpfs isn't currently being maintained.
I get the feeling I'm missing something obvious here, and maybe making life hard for myself. I can't be the only person using Linux on a PC trying to access Macs. =)
Carl
Nope, your not. I've got Netatalk working and communicating between my Linux box and my Mac 0S 8.5 box, primarily because the Linux box is the print server. But it is only one way, I can mount the Linux on the Mac, but not vice versa. *HOWEVER*, you should not have to use atalk for Mac OS X, it should just work out of the box -- the advantage of having that BSD layer below the Quartz. You should be able to NFS mount file systems between the two machines. At one point in time, I actually had this working between my OS X Server box and my Linux box. But as that was a long time ago, memory as to how to set it up has faded -- though I do recall that it was easer to get OS X Server talking with Linux than it was to get either of them to talk to my NeXT slab. Since I don't have X for real, anything I attempt to re-construct on my OS X Server box may not quite work for your version of OS X. However, if the suggestion about File Sharing that someone made is true, that's cool. Otherwise you may end up having to dealve into the wonderful world of NetInfo. -- --Gregory