On Fri, Apr 09, 2004 at 03:37:48PM -0400, 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.
Samba and not NFS? I thought NFS was easier to set up on a Linux box than Samba. I run into problems with files ownership and permissions using Samba too, but I think I need to tweak my Samba config or play with my /etc/groups to remedy that problem. 1If OSX uses the same *nix file ownership rules and permissions as Linux, then why not use NFS? -- Mike Moving forward in pushing back the envelope of the corporate paradigm. -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
