From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 18 12:52:36 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 59B5816A4CE for ; Mon, 18 Oct 2004 12:52:36 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mx05.ms.so-net.ne.jp (mx05.ms.so-net.ne.jp [202.238.82.5]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 923BF43D39 for ; Mon, 18 Oct 2004 12:52:35 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from khoyee@tf7.so-net.ne.jp) Received: from [192.168.0.2] (p29edfa.osakac00.ap.so-net.ne.jp [218.41.237.250]) by mx05.ms.so-net.ne.jp with ESMTP id i9ICqWXS009336 for ; Mon, 18 Oct 2004 21:52:33 +0900 (JST) Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v619) In-Reply-To: <20041018113337.GA26265@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> References: <20041018113337.GA26265@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Choy Kho Yee Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2004 21:53:04 +0900 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.619) Subject: Re: How to start netatalk? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2004 12:52:36 -0000 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."