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Subject: Re: OSX and Freebsd : what could be a good setup
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Panna wrote:
> I've purchased a new emac with OSX 10.3.
...snip...
> The freebsd server should act as mail and news-server and also as file 
> server.
> Do I have to put the data on a fat32-slice?

no, use nfs


> If I setup a nfs-mount on the freebsd server and copy data from OSX to 
> it, is the data readable from Freebsd without the hfs port?
> 

yes


> You see I'm in a state of confusion..
> 

You're simply using a FreeBSD as a file server.  You serve up
files to the client via NFS (OS X) or CIFS (Windows).  FreeBSD doesn't 
care.  Now if you want FreeBSD to understand and manipulate those files
is a different issue.

-- 
Regards,
Doug