On Sun, Apr 3, 2016 at 6:32 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Apr 3, 2016 at 12:02 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Back in the day I use to use neatalk the Linux AFP server but i'm not >> sure Mac OSX still uses AFP. > > Oh, brother. I used to *publish* the hooks to get CAP, the Columbia > Appletalk Protocol server, and later netatalk to work for SunOS sytems > to allow Mac access. > > These days, MacOS clients can use NFSv3 to access Linux hosts quite > handily. I'd use that, seriously. The tricky part is unmounting > gracefully: NFS is supposed to be "stateless", but never quite > achieves it. > > If you need better authentication, then look into CIFS (which Linux > and various network appliances use Samba to publish), or possibly > NFSv4 (which has much better user authentication than NFSv3, but is > more complex to set up).
OS X 10.1 had nfs and smb as well as Apple's pre-OS X afp. OS X defaulted to afp until smb replaced it in OS X 10.9. If you set up samba on an SL box and have avahi installed, the SL box'll show up in the OS X Finder.
