Subject: Re: Unix (Netatalk) Client of Conventional MacOS Server?
From: Chad Cunningham (ccunning@math.ohio-state.edu)
Date: Wed May 16 2001 - 14:48:31 EDT
Netatalk is a server, it allows other machines to mount volumes from a
unix machine using classic appletalk or appletalk over IP.
As far as I know, there is nothing that will allow any variety of unix to
mount an appleshare volume that is served up by another machine. There is
a linux kernel module that existed at one time, but it didn't work all
that well and hasn't been touched in a few years.
On Wed, 16 May 2001, Allan Hunter wrote:
> Hello, list! Complete Unix newbie here, courtesy of MacOS X (I'm
> afraid you'll be getting more and more of this...)
>
> Suppose I wish to access the shares that are set up on Macintosh
> computers here in our organization, and I am running a BSD Unix
> variant (MacOS X in this case). Those Macintoshes (hundreds of them,
> in dozens of hallways throughout many buildings in many states -- in
> other words, changing how THEY are set up isn't a viable answer here)
> are not running AppleShare of the IP variety but just plain old
> garden variety AppleTalk-based file sharing over Ethernet.
>
> Will Netatalk enable me to be a CLIENT of those shares? Or is
> Netatalk only useful for turning Unix boxes into AppleShare SERVERS?
>
> If Netatalk won't allow me to be a client, what will? (There HAS to
> be something! I refuse to believe there doesn't exist a way for a
> Unix box to function as an individual workstation in an AppleTalk
> networked environment!)
>
> Relevant additional information: MacOS X in its out-of-the-box form
> is not able to browse AppleShare resources except for those that sit
> piggyback on top of TCP/IP. Plain old garden variety AppleTalk file
> sharing isn't affiliated with TCP/IP.
>
>
>
--Chad Cunningham ccunning@math.ohio-state.edu
"Well, once again my friend, we find that science is a two-headed beast. One head is nice, it gives us aspirin and other modern conveniences,...but the other head of science is bad! Oh beware the other head of science, Arthur, it bites!"
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