I've set up both Netatalk and Rendezvous under Linux. Rendevous is set up using a program (which Apple provides an open source version of) called mDNS. I don't have a link at the moment, but let me know if you're interested, I can help with both the Netatalk setup as well as the Rendezvous setup.
The links Aaron gave should be an excellent start. Make sure you have bdb installed.
-Josh
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On Apr 9, 2004, at 5:13 PM, Aaron S. Joyner wrote:
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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