On Mon, 2 Feb 2009, Stephen Brownfield wrote:
I just loaded Fedora 10 on a computer and would like to add it to my home network which consists of Macintosh computers. It can find the internet via Ethernet or wireless. How can I get it to be recognized and/or have it recognize my iMac running OS 10.4.11?
Well, first of all, we need to know what you want your network to do. If you're sharing files, then you have several options. The traditional Unix/Linux file sharing uses something called NFS which is a little difficult to configure, and can sometimes lock up when the file server is unreachable. Linux can speak Mac's native file sharing with a package called "netatalk" (Net AppleTalk). However, the easiest actually seems to be to get both sides to speak the Window's native file sharing. I think (Tom can correct me if I'm wrong) that Mac OS X can natively share files with Windows. And Linux can use a package called Samba to share (as client or server) files. The OS X side of things can be found here... and the Fedora is very similar. http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/opensource/?p=173 -- Vicky Staubly http://www.steeds.com/vicky/ [email protected] ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
