Mac OS/X and Linux

[Chris Gehlker]

On Sep 26, 2007, at 9:01 AM, Matt Graham wrote:

> 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.
>

Well it's been longer than I want to admit to  myself since I did  
this and I was working with Red Hat but I really was easier to set up  
Samba.

NFS has a little problem too. The connection won't  survive a reboot.  
IIf your users turn off their computers at night you will have to  
show them  how to use the Go menu to  mount the NFS share every  
morning. Alternatively, you can muck about with NetInfo and get the  
macs to auto-mount the NFS share but that can be a PITA as well if  
you  have lots of clients.

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