Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2004 21:53:04 +0900 From: Choy Kho Yee <khoyee@tf7.so-net.ne.jp> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to start netatalk? Message-ID: <A67E44A0-2104-11D9-974E-000A95BE58A4@tf7.so-net.ne.jp> In-Reply-To: <20041018113337.GA26265@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> References: <B6AE8ED0-20F1-11D9-974E-000A95BE58A4@tf7.so-net.ne.jp> <20041018113337.GA26265@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk>
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On 2004/10/18, at 20:33, Matthew Seaman wrote: > On Mon, Oct 18, 2004 at 07:37:30PM +0900, Choy Kho Yee wrote: >> Hi, I want to share files between FreeBSD 5.3 and Mac OS X. >> I have compiled my kernel with the NETATALK option, and installed >> netatalk 2.0 from the port. What should I do now? > > Forget all about netatalk -- that's a hold over from the old MacOS 9 > days. MacOS X does both NFS and Samba out of the box. Either of > which would be a better choice. NFS is native to both platforms and > probably the quickest to set up, but you'll have to synchronise UID > and GID numbers between server and client for the user accounts that > use it. Samba requires your installing some 3rd party software on the > FreeBSD side, and working out how you're going to authenticate one to > the other. > > Cheers, > > Matthew Thanks for your advice. I have tried NFS but I am learning about IPFW on the FreeBSD box, and I heard that it is hard to properly configure IPFW to let through NFS packets, so I was thinking to switch to netatalk. I haven't tried Samba, though. Anyway, I just successfully setup netatalk to serve files to my iBook G4(Yes it is Mac OS X :D). I think I will stay with netatalk for a while. Thanks again :) --- Choy Kho Yee url: http://dotkoyi.infoseek.ne.jp/ blog: http://dotkoyi.blogspot.com/ "There are only 10 types of people in the world, i.e. those who understand binary numbers and those who do not."help
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