[TriLUG] apple file sharing protocol

[Tanner Lovelace]

Ralph Blach said the following on 4/9/04 3:12 PM:
> My son has Apples computers at his school and they are using OSX. Here 
> are my questions.
> 
> What file sharing protocal does Apple use.
> Can linux be a file server to a group of apple machines.  If , how?
> 
> Thanks
> 

If they're using OS X, then it's quite easy.  OS X supports not only
AppleTalk, but also Samba and NFS.  Probably the easiest thing would be to
just setup samba on a linux box and have the OS X machines connect
that way.  <Apple>-k from the Finder brings up the network connect
dialog.  Specify "smb://hostname/path", username and password and you're
set.

Cheers,
Tanner

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