Re: [TriLUG] apple file sharing protocol

[Aaron S. Joyner]

You do say that your machines are using OS X, but I often find in 
educational environments it's not a pure environment, and there may be 
older OS 7-9 machines to support.  If that's the case, you can have a 
look at netatalk's afpd, the Linux AppleTalk Filing Protocol Daemon.  
Apple's native file sharing is handled via AppleTalk, and Rendezvous.  I 
have not setup Rendezvous myself under Linux, but getting it working 
should not be any great hassle (I have a good friend who has done it and 
spoken favorably of it).  I personally have setup afpd myself, and it's 
a breeze.  The museum where my father works is using it to share out a 
single set of directories to a very diverse set of clients - OS 8, 9, 
and X as well as the same structure via Samba to Windows clients, and 
NFS to a linux client or two.  Allows for easy document sharing and 
collaboration amongst all of the users on the network.

Relevant links:
http://rsug.itd.umich.edu/software/netatalk.html
http://netatalk.sourceforge.net/
Rendezvous is the magic in OS X that allows for automatic discovery of 
network shares and quick and easy network share browsing.  If you want 
to get it working, a quick google search on "rendezvous linux" will net 
all you could want and more.

Aaron S. Joyner

Tanner Lovelace wrote:

Ralph Blach said the following on 4/9/04 3:12 PM:

My son has Apples computers at his school and they are using OSX. 
Here are my questions.

What file sharing protocal does Apple use.
Can linux be a file server to a group of apple machines.  If , how?
Thanks

If they're using OS X, then it's quite easy.  OS X supports not only
AppleTalk, but also Samba and NFS.  Probably the easiest thing would 
be to
just setup samba on a linux box and have the OS X machines connect
that way.  <Apple>-k from the Finder brings up the network connect
dialog.  Specify "smb://hostname/path", username and password and you're
set.

Cheers,
Tanner
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