AppleTalk

[ME]

Yes. Some specifics:
1) does your linux box have and use any of the various LocalTalk cards
with netatalk to allow for routing and IP Masquerading to Macintosh
machines on a LocalTalk Segment?
2) Inclusion of AppleTalk routers on your network? FastPath, Mac OS X,
newest version of Netatalk?
3) An Ethernet-only network?
4) Trying to use the Airport system, if so you you have a base unit? Is
that base unit connected to the same ethernet segment as your linux box?
5) If using localtalk, have you included the drivers in your kernel to
support the localtalk card within linux?
6) Are you rusing linx on the ix86, or PPC or 68040 etc?
7) Are you trying to work Appletalk over IP, opr just startigh appletal
over ethernet?

To stat for direction, look into "Asun-Netatalk" with your linux
distributon. Later version of linux come with later versions of netatalk.
If you version of Netatalk does not include "asun" then seriously consider
downloading a copy since the advances of A Sun in his patches to the
standard netatalk are worth the effort.
Install this asun netatalk, and configure it on the same thernet interface
shared by your mac, or include the localtalk interface if you have
included a localtalk card,

Now to reiterate the previous poster: more information would be helpful.
Realize that you will need to do some reading, and a large part of the
"answer" will most likely be some URLs for understaning how to configure
Apple related services on Linux.

The above list of numbers is not meant to be intimidating, but meant to
offer some clues for information that could be helpful in offering a route
to solve the problem you face.

Also a few more:
By "conecting an Apple iBook to your linux box" are you referring to:
file sharing?
IP Masquerading (ability to share the same IP address used b yur linux box
as iut connects up to your ISP over xDSL, or PPP or ???
ping/telnet/ftp etc  on an Intranet?

I am not an AppleTalk Expert yet either. When I finish "Inside AppleTalk"
then I will be closer to an Expert, but offer more info and it is likely
that all of us will be able to offer you a path to a solution.

-ME

> On Fri, 10 Dec 1999 21:23:50 +0000, Mike Shain <mshain at metro.net> spoke
> gently: 
> > I am trying to connect a Apple iBook to my linux box and failing can
> > anyone offer suggestions

On Fri, 10 Dec 1999, Sebastian Mindling wrote:
> Perhaps you could give some specifics? Versions, config files? I'm by no
> means an Appletalk expert, but no one here can help you without more
> information.