newbie network question

[Tony Alfrey]

James McDonald wrote:
> 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.
> 
> 

This looks pretty neat.  I need to study the manual.  All 101 pages!
Thanks!



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