From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 16 17:19:48 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp1.vnet.net (smtp1.vnet.net [166.82.1.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 545DC112CB for ; Tue, 16 Feb 1999 17:17:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rivers@dignus.com) Received: from dignus.com (ponds.vnet.net [166.82.177.48]) by smtp1.vnet.net (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id UAA02047; Tue, 16 Feb 1999 20:17:43 -0500 (EST) Received: from lakes.dignus.com (lakes.dignus.com [10.0.0.3]) by dignus.com (8.9.1/8.8.5) with ESMTP id UAA10167; Tue, 16 Feb 1999 20:16:45 -0500 (EST) Received: (from rivers@localhost) by lakes.dignus.com (8.9.1/8.6.9) id UAA10519; Tue, 16 Feb 1999 20:16:52 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 16 Feb 1999 20:16:52 -0500 (EST) From: Thomas David Rivers Message-Id: <199902170116.UAA10519@lakes.dignus.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, mbeger@integration.ab.ca Subject: Re: FreeBSD Server in a mixed Mac and PC environment. In-Reply-To: <8725671A.005E0A9C.00@mail.digitalinc.net> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > The company that I work for offers some business and Internet solutions > using FreeBSD. > We would like to know if FreeBSD will work as a file server in mixed PC > (WIN95) and MAC office envirnment. There seems to be some question as to > the ability of the file server to read MAC files and MAC's being able to > read other files from the file server. An example of the file types in > question are Adobe Pagemaker and Photoshop. If anyone can tell me if this > solution is possible, please email me at mbeger@integration.ab.ca > > Thanks > Mark > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > If you set up your MACs to read PC files (i.e. IPX stuff), then FreeBSD can export the files via samba - just like it does to a PC. That is, to the MAC, the FreeBSD box will appear to be a PC server. But - there's another approach. FreeBSD supports appletalk.... I don't know what the status of that is. I have heard people have been successful with that. With the combination of AppleTalk and Samba - FreeBSD would seem like a wonderful choice in that environment... - Dave Rivers - To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message