If you need any assistance let me know. The only thing I have not done is the printing and MacIP stuff, and I don't think Netatalk knows MacIP. I almost never print anything so it's a waste of time for me. I've had Netatalk running and serving from my Linux server for about two years now with hardly a glitch. I also have a Performa 630CD running OS 8.1 and LocalTalk bridge to link my LocalTalk and Ethernet networks. The only problem I've ever had with the LocalTalk bridge software is with my PowerBooks running OS 8.1. They have problems talking to my Linux box when TCP/IP is enabled (They always use PPP and a serial line or a modem for that since I have yet to acquire an ethernet card for them). All my System 6 boxen and even my Apple IIGS talk fine to my Linux server.
I would recommend to anyone setting up Netatalk to use a separate directory in your home directory for the Mac files. I have a directory called Mac and the file AppleVolumes in my home directory contains the line '~/Mac "Home"'. This tells Netatalk to share the Mac directory as the volume Home when I login. You can also put in other shares here, I have a directory on a spare partition I share out for backups. If you don't do this your full home directory is shared. Any directory that is shared gets a .AppleDouble/ directory with one file for each file in the parent directory. These files contain the resource fork and can get quite large. The big problem is there is no way to clean out the old resource fork files when you delete a file from Unix. After a year of moving/deleting/renaming files you can suck up a lot of disk space in there. Additionally if you want to bridge MacIP on LocalTalk and TCP/IP on Ethernet there is a piece of software that does that called IPNetRouter. You can find the demo all over the place on the net. I installed the demo on my Performa to try it out and with a little tweaking it works flawlessly. To get that to work allocate a separate subnet for MacIP. I use 192.168.1.0 for Ethernet and thus used 192.168.2.0 for MacIP when I tested it. This assumes you are using your Linux box as your primary gateway. Configure the machine running IPNetRouter with an address on both subnets, say 192.168.1.10 and 192.168.2.1. All systems using MacIP on LocalTalk get an address in the 192.168.2 subnet and use 192.168.2.1 as their gateway. Add an entry to the Linux boxes routing tables listing 192.168.1.10 as the gateway to the 192.168.2.0 subnet (the man page for route will help with this). Assign 192.168.1.10 on the IPNetRouter box in the TCP/IP control panel and assign the 192.168.2.1 IP address using IPNetRouter via MacIP. Twiddle with the settings for IPNetRouter telling it to do NAT and to allow everything through. You might have to close IPNetRouter and restart it. I don't recall the details since I only tried it once, but it did work with both my PowerBook running 8.1 and a Mac Classic running 6.8 If any one needs help let me know and I can help over email or some sort of chat. I do not check my email often on the weekends unless I am expecting something. I have AIM and would gladly lend support through it. I also have accounts on Grex (www.cyberspace.org) and SDF (sdf.lonestar.org), both are public access UNIX systems and have chat services available. And there is always IRC, but I do not provide support for that. On Wed, Oct 13, 2004 at 12:52:21PM -0400, Byron Q. Desnoyers Winmill wrote: > On Wed, Oct 13, 2004 at 06:40:19PM +0200, Marten van de Kraats wrote: > > What exactly is a primer? > > A quick introduction to netatalk and how to set it up under Linux, > directed towards novices. I'm planning on: > > * Setting up Linux to use a LocalTalk printer. > * Setting up Linux as a file server for System 6 Macintosh computers, > and the Apple IIgs. > * Setting up Linux as a TCP/IP<->MacIP gateway, so that compact > Macs can access the internet via a LocalTalk port. > > The only "special" hardware required is a LocalTalk<->ethernet > bridge (like Farallon's EtherWave or AsanteTalk), though the second > objective would work just as well with an ethernet capable System > 6 Mac. > > Byron. -- Lorance Stinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.worldpbx.com/ -- System6 is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... 123Inkjets.com <http://lowendmac.com/ad/123inkjets.html> Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> System 6 Heaven <http://www.euronet.nl/users/mvdk/system_6_heaven.html> System6 info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/system6.html> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/system6%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
