I have installed netAtalk (or maybe it came out of the box with RedHat??)
and I must say it works quite well for my home office network. I was
able to export (or whatever the appletalk equiv is) users home
directories, authenticated with their unix username and password. I
have not tried it in a larger environment, but its simply awesome at home.
There is a HowTo at http://thehamptons.com/anders/netatalk/
- Noah
On Mon, 31 Jan 2000, mike ledoux wrote:
> On Mon, 31 Jan 2000, Stephen Ryan wrote:
>
> >On 31 Jan, Benjamin Scott wrote:
> >
> >> If you want to mount a share from a Windows box to a Linux machine, you need
> >> to have smbfs support compiled into the kernel (or available as a module).
> >> Then it is simply a matter of using smbmount to mount the share.
> >
> >Aha! I kinda hoped there was a way to do that. Ya learn somethin' new
> >every day, here. Thanks.
> >
> >So, just for kicks.... Does anybody know of a similar appletalk
> >mount, for Mac file sharing? My interest in the SMB stuff is mainly an
> >academic interest, as I am generally fortunate enough to not have to
> >deal with Win9x; Macs, OTOH, I do have to deal with regularly.
>
> There are a couple of packages out there that do for appletalk what
> samba does for SMB. I have the following links from the last time I
> had to do this, perhaps they will be of use:
>
> http://www.cs.mu.oz.au/appletalk/readmes/UAR.README.html
> http://www.cs.mu.oz.au/appletalk/readmes/CAP.faq
>
> I've never used it myself, since I wasn't working on a linux system
> when I last did this, but there is some AppleTalk support in recent
> linux kernels. I don't know exactly what capabilities it provides.
>
> HTH,
>
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