[TriLUG] apple file sharing protocol

[Joshua Gitlin]

Ralph,

I've set up both Netatalk and Rendezvous under Linux. Rendevous is set 
up using a program (which Apple provides an open source version of) 
called mDNS. I don't have a link at the moment, but let me know if 
you're interested, I can help with both the Netatalk setup as well as 
the Rendezvous setup.

The links Aaron gave should be an excellent start. Make sure you have 
bdb installed.

-Josh

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On Apr 9, 2004, at 5:13 PM, Aaron S. Joyner wrote:

> You do say that your machines are using OS X, but I often find in 
> educational environments it's not a pure environment, and there may be 
> older OS 7-9 machines to support.  If that's the case, you can have a 
> look at netatalk's afpd, the Linux AppleTalk Filing Protocol Daemon.  
> Apple's native file sharing is handled via AppleTalk, and Rendezvous.  
> I have not setup Rendezvous myself under Linux, but getting it working 
> should not be any great hassle (I have a good friend who has done it 
> and spoken favorably of it).  I personally have setup afpd myself, and 
> it's a breeze.  The museum where my father works is using it to share 
> out a single set of directories to a very diverse set of clients - OS 
> 8, 9, and X as well as the same structure via Samba to Windows 
> clients, and NFS to a linux client or two.  Allows for easy document 
> sharing and collaboration amongst all of the users on the network.
>
> Relevant links:
> http://rsug.itd.umich.edu/software/netatalk.html
> http://netatalk.sourceforge.net/
>
> Rendezvous is the magic in OS X that allows for automatic discovery of 
> network shares and quick and easy network share browsing.  If you want 
> to get it working, a quick google search on "rendezvous linux" will 
> net all you could want and more.
>
> Aaron S. Joyner
>
>
> Tanner Lovelace wrote:
>
>> 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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