Or you can install MacNFS on the Mac. john > From: Malcolm McLeary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: "retro-talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 10:09:20 +1100 > To: retro-talk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Unix? > > Jon, > > on 15/3/00 9:48 AM, Jon Gardner at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >>>> What about using Netatalk to mount volumes on a Unix/Linux box for >>>> Retrospect to backup? Anyone doing this? >>> >>> Unless I'm missing something obvious, the issue that keeps coming >>> back to haunt Dantz :-) is that there is no client to run on the *nix >>> box. Netatalk or not, Retrospect has no way to communicate directly >>> with the *nix box because there is no client to accept the >>> proprietary connection. >> >> Retro will backup files from a mounted network drive. You don't have to be >> running a client on the other machine. > > The point is, without installing Netatalk or SAMBA there are no network > drives to mount. Unix/Linux does not provide native filesharing support for > MacOS or Windows ... that is what Netatalk and SAMBA do. > > Cheers, Malcolm > > . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . > > Information Alchemy Pty Ltd > ACN 089 239 305 > Canberra, Australia > > Malcolm McLeary Mobile: 0412 636 086 > Managing Director Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > This message was sent using Outlook Express 5.0 for Macintosh. > > > > > -- > ---------------------------------------------------------- > To subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Archives: <http://list.working-dogs.com/lists/retro-talk/> > Problems?: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- ---------------------------------------------------------- To subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives: <http://list.working-dogs.com/lists/retro-talk/> Problems?: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
