Very Computer

HI,
I have absolutely no experience networking Macs at all. I've been asked
if we could put a Linux mail/web/etc server in a mac office and have it
act as a server for some Power Macintrash's. Is this possible? I've seen
something mentioned about appletalk, but I've not worked with it.
If anyone could point me in a direction that might help, I'd really
appreciate it.

Mark.

Hey,

Ya know what?  I know how to do it, and until you sound a little more
sincere in your apology,

I AIN'T TELLIN

On Fri, 05 Jun 1998 12:45:06 +0000, digital_terrorist

   Hey,

   Ya know what?  I know how to do it, and until you sound a little more
   sincere in your apology,

   I AIN'T TELLIN

Tsk tsk.

Netatalk, it's what you need.

As for Macintoshes, as a recovering admin, out of the SGI's, DEC,
Sun, HP, NT, Win95, PowerMac 7200 and 6200, LCIII's I've had to admin,
the PowerMacs gave me the most trouble. There's a _reason_ some people
don't like them.

   On Fri, 05 Jun 1998 12:45:06 +0000, digital_terrorist

   >> You're right, that was thoughtless, It's just habit to refer to them that
   >> way. Every place that I've had contact with them, they have been a
   >> nightmare.
   >
   >
   >


   >>
   >> > I have absolutely no experience networking Macs at all. I've been asked
   >> > if we could put a Linux mail/web/etc server in a mac office and have it
   >> > act as a server for some Power Macintrash's. Is this possible? I've seen
   >> > something mentioned about appletalk, but I've not worked with it.
   >> > If anyone could point me in a direction that might help, I'd really
   >> > appreciate it.
   >>
   >> Try leaving out 'Macintrash' and ask again...the people who probably have
   >> the experience you're looking for may be less willing to help...
   >
   >
   >

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Not getting into the OS petty snipping here, I too recommend netatalk for
file and printer shareing for the MAC's, but to fully implement mail, WWW,
news, realaudio serving, and all the other goodies that make linux a major
player now days, you will want to install an IP stack on the Macs, you can
then look into IP masquading to serve a small network with only one valid
IP address.  

It all works very well indeed.

: > You're right, that was thoughtless, It's just habit to refer to them that
: > way. Every place that I've had contact with them, they have been a
: > nightmare.

: >
: > > I have absolutely no experience networking Macs at all. I've been asked
: > > if we could put a Linux mail/web/etc server in a mac office and have it
: > > act as a server for some Power Macintrash's. Is this possible? I've seen
: > > something mentioned about appletalk, but I've not worked with it.
: > > If anyone could point me in a direction that might help, I'd really
: > > appreciate it.
: >
: > Try leaving out 'Macintrash' and ask again...the people who probably have
: > the experience you're looking for may be less willing to help...

--
Eric Hagen                  "Sometimes we get lost in the darkness,

                            "You fight for something because it is good.
                                        Not because it stands to succeed."

Macintoshes are a sinch.
Do a net search of netatalk. This will allow you to do file system services
with Linux. I have this working with a few MacIntosh's.
(Which, by the way, REALLY REALLY suck!!!! All the stupidness of Windows
with none of the OS level improvements)

Quote:> HI,
> I have absolutely no experience networking Macs at all. I've been asked
> if we could put a Linux mail/web/etc server in a mac office and have it
> act as a server for some Power Macintrash's. Is this possible? I've seen
> something mentioned about appletalk, but I've not worked with it.
> If anyone could point me in a direction that might help, I'd really
> appreciate it.

http://sunsite.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/Networking-Overview-HOWTO.html

Regards

Daniel

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Daniel Lopez Ridruejo              "Audaces fortuna juvat"

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I'm new at it too, but here's the basics that people are telling me.
appletalk is the Mac networking protocol (like NetBeui for Windows).
netatalk is the equivalent of Samba.  It enables the linux machine to
"talk" appletalk.  A search on netatalk macintosh linux etc will get
you a number of pages.  Netscape ate my book marks during a Win95
freeze last week, so I can't give you a bunch of pages.  (Look at my
post of last week linux+samba+dave for more comments from people.)

Also, check into comp.os.linux.powerpc.  They have a higher
concentration of mac users.

Jon