...Or if you want a lotech solution, here's what I've done:
Installed netatalk on my two Macs.
Installed VNC on my Macs and linux box. VNC is an unbelievably cool remote
access app (something like PC Anywhere without talk or file transfer). It's
part of the Linux-Mandrake distribution so it may already be on your system.
(Type "vncviewer" and see if your prompted for a server name.)
On the Mac side, just go with the installer defaults. Note that you have to
start up the server after you install it -- it's not a "daemon" (although you
can put it in the Startup folder if you always want it running.) Also note
that it has a weird way of creating a Prefs file. You have to start it up,
save the prefs, then quit, and start it up again before you can modify the
prefs.
Using the vncviewer on my linux box, I can bring up my Mac's desktop, mount
my linux home directory on the Mac, then copy between the Mac and the linux
box.
This isn't quite the same as mounting a Mac drive, but practically speaking
it does everything I need.
M.
On Tuesday 23 January 2001 16:14, you wrote:
> On 01.23 Praedor Tempus wrote:
> > How do I connect to and mount a Macintosh harddrive that is networked AND
> > has filesharing enabled (and tcpip enabled)?
>
> In short: YOU CAN'T (afaik).
>
> You want this scenario: macs are servers, share their files, and you want
> to see them from the linux box. Macs share their files through a protocol
> called AppleTalk,
> that works over the same physical ethernet than TCP/IP (ftp, telnet, nfs),
> but is
> not the same. So you want an AppleTalk client running in your linux box to
> connect
> to appletalk servers and mount their disks. There is no client to do that.
>
> The latest news I have heard about that are in:
> http://www-sccm.stanford.edu/Students/hargrove/HFS/index.html#Clients
> http://www.panix.com/~dfoster/afpfs/
>
> so it seems to be in very unusable shape.
>
> The reverse (see your linux box from macs Chooser), can be done with
> 'netatalk'. Look at:
> http://netatalk.sourceforge.net/
>
> And you can install an ftp server on your macs. NetPresenz it the best for
> me. Get it in you favourite mac mirror, and put an alias in the Startup
> Items Folder.
> I do not know if it will be still free...
>
> BTW: anybody knows anything about linux support for
> - HFS+
> - afpfs
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Michael O'Henly
TENZO Design
