newbie network question

[James McDonald]

On Wed, Feb 16, 2005 at 02:41:58PM -0800, Tony Alfrey wrote:
> On Wednesday 16 February 2005 02:23 pm, Michael Hipp wrote:
> > Tony Alfrey wrote:
> > > Now I want to be able to access the linux box from the Mac, via
> > > this Airport box.  Someone told me that I need to set up Samba on
> > > the linux box.
> >
> > What sort of "access" do you want (command line, graphical desktop,
> > file and print server)? Samba is the right answer for the latter but
> > not for the others.
> 
> Graphical desktop.  I want it to appear like a hard drive or similar 
> device.
> Thanks!
>

Here is a blurb I googled which in part reads:

The install onto my Linux box file server was quite painless and I was instantly able to mount all my Linux volumes on my OS X desktop (works equally well on OS 9).

This is the link:
http://netatalk.sourceforge.net/

So it looks like one can install the Appletalk protocol on the Linux box and then use native Mac protocols to access the Linux volumes.