From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 27 19:45:15 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id TAA15926 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 27 Nov 1997 19:45:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from babylon.wsc.monash.edu.au (babylon.wsc.monash.edu.au [130.194.166.91]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id TAA15911 for ; Thu, 27 Nov 1997 19:45:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from graeme@babylon.wsc.monash.edu.au) Received: from localhost (graeme@localhost) by babylon.wsc.monash.edu.au (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id OAA16569; Fri, 28 Nov 1997 14:43:19 +1100 Date: Fri, 28 Nov 1997 14:43:18 +1100 (EST) From: Graeme Cross Reply-To: Graeme.Cross@sci.monash.edu.au To: David Kelly cc: Luc De Meyer , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: connectable to Mac's??? In-Reply-To: <199711280152.TAA21145@nospam.hiwaay.net> Message-ID: X-Attribution: gjc X-No-Archive: yes X-No-Junk-Mail: Do not send me junk mail under any circumstances X-PGP-Key-ID: 702DB549 X-URI: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- On Thu, 27 Nov 1997, David Kelly wrote: > > I understand that one can connect to a Win-95 PC using SAMBA. But is > > there also a way to connect to a Macintosh? We use a mixed network here > > and I would like to use FreeBSD as a server to both platforms. > > Add to your kernel config file: > options NETATALK #Appletalk communications protocols > > Build a new kernel and reboot. Install the /usr/ports/net/netatalk port > (or package). Configure it. And you are off and running. > > Netatalk will not mount a Mac filesystem on your FreeBSD box, but will > let you export from your FreeBSD system. I think you can export > filesystems that have been imported via NFS or Samba. There is a (free) NFS package for the Mac that will allow you to export Mac filesystems. You can get the portmapper and nfsd packages from: ftp://prozac.eeap.cwru.edu/pub/jude/ Cheers Graeme - -- Graeme Cross Water Studies Centre, Monash University http://www.wsc.monash.edu.au/~graeme/ Random thought #83 Life is wonderful. Without it we'd all be dead. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3i Charset: noconv Comment: Auto-signed by PPG (v1.01) (the PGP/PINE gateway) iQB1AwUBNH490mAiycRwLbVJAQHpzAMAmAZFsZE5t6o/IEswjfVJwLOU4WFVXGrt QP3pZdONKZqUTz2PM/JX0mMZxAxL3ErjgSszRFInZfSL4+pxmqMpDTvVKH8yUbBj vuKsmiBSuZG7u8PNSs04j57jmAdQm3q4 =aLAC -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----