file sharing

[Eric Eisenhart]

On Sun, Jun 03, 2001 at 08:27:48PM -0700, Leif Ryge wrote:
> I'd like to have the linux box also run as a file server, since it will
> soon have a large hard drive in it. The machines on my network are macs
> and wintel boxes (98 on one and win2k on two others), so I need to work
> with that. From what I've read it sounds like nfs would be eaiser to setup
> than samba, but I really don't exactly know what I'm doing. Can I make nfs
> work with a mixed-platform network, or do I need samba for that?

Well, setting up NFS on the Linux side is probably easier than setting up
samba, but unfortunately, that's really not gonna help you any, since samba
is what you're gonna need to use with the wintel boxes...

For letting the Macs get to files on the Linux box, the software you'll want
is "netatalk".

I'd suggest you install the samba and netatalk packages available for RedHat
6.2, play around with each for an hour or so, and then ask talk at nblug.org
for help...  (They're both complicated enough that you could run into
trouble...  especially samba; netatalk's actually not bad)
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