newbie network question

Tony Alfrey tonyalfrey
Thu Feb 17 16:57:46 PST 2005


On Thursday 17 February 2005 08:20 am, Raymond Russell wrote:
> On Feb 16, 2005, at 6:08 PM, James McDonald wrote:
<snip>
> >
> > 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.
>
> Yes you can do this I had a Suse box setup with netatalk and it
> worked fine with OSX.  You can also do NFS, Samba and DAV.  OSX also
> mounts FTP shares on the desktop with no problem.  Since its easy to
> start FTP on the linux box and the FTP shares will appear on the OSX
> desktop it will accomplish the task with the least amount of work.

I am able to start ftp on the linux box and it recognizes the Mac.  But 
I do not see anything that appears on the OSX desktop.  Can you 
describe any additional steps that are required that I am missing?
Thanks!
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