Subject: Re: Unix (Netatalk) Client of Conventional MacOS Server?
From: Les Gondor (les@gandalfgraphics.com)
Date: Wed May 16 2001 - 16:32:59 EDT
There did exist a user-level nfs daemon called afpmount, but it was built
around CAP. The rather old source still exists at
http://www.funet.fi/pub/mac/cap/afpmount/afpmount-1.8.tar
Regards,
Les Gondor
On 16/05/01, 02:48:31 PM, Chad Cunningham <ccunning@math.ohio-state.edu>
wrote regarding Re: Unix (Netatalk) Client of Conventional MacOS Server?:
> 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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