newbie network question

[Raymond Russell]

On Feb 17, 2005, at 4:47 PM, A. Khattri wrote:

> On Thu, 17 Feb 2005, Tony Alfrey wrote:
>
>> 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?
>
> In order for your Linux box to provide a service to the Mac is must be
> running a server. So, to do FTP you will need an FTP server running on 
> the
> Linux box. (Same for Samba, or NFS, or AppleTalk, whatever).
>
> BTW, I thought mounting FTP shares on the Mac desktop gave you 
> read-only
> access to the FTP site?
>
>

Yes that is correct they are mounted read only.  I never tried to hack 
it to do
write access.

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