After a long battle with technology, Chris Gehlker wrote:
> On Sep 26, 2007, at 7:48 AM, Mike Garfias wrote:
> > I've been using AFP instead of NFS.
> AFP/Netatalk is also a good choice but it doesn't come with most
> distros AFAICT.

It doesn't?  How weird.  It's available in Debian and Gentoo, and reasonably easy to set up.  However, I wouldn't use it with machines that are capable of doing SMB or NFS, mostly because the tools available for diagnosing problems are practically nonexistent on the Linux side.

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