Drivers needed

From: John Foust <jfoust_at_threedee.com>
Date: Mon Aug 16 10:21:00 1999

At 10:46 AM 8/15/99 -0700, Zane H. Healy wrote:
>
>As for Samba, how would that solve the problem? Is there a Mac server or
>client? The best/cheapest solution is to have Linux box acting as a server
>on your network running NFS, Netatalk, and Samba.

Yes, share the same point as Netatalk and Samba, and you're sharing
a filesystem between your Mac and PC. You're not seeing the Mac's
native drives directly from the PC, or vice-versa, but it works
pretty well. I also run NCSA Telnet on the Macs, it gives them
a minimal 'ftp' client and server. I imagine there must be better
alternatives by now, but they may have more recent OS requirements.

>Alternatively if you've got a copy or can afford a copy, as mentioned you
>can run WinNT Server. I was stupid enough to buy a copy (for learning
>purposes, I don't run Windows at all), and was surprised how well it
>performs as a Appletalk server.

I did that for a while, using NTAS on a spare DEC Alpha machine.
However, I ran into trouble once I tried to manipulate files with
perfectly legal Mac names like "Doc 3/24/97", which were munged to
something illegal under NTAS 4.0. The Apple sharing still worked,
but no Windows box could touch those filenames.

>What would make me happy is if you could still buy a NFS client for the
>Mac. I'd like to have a good NFS client for my PowerMac and have search
>high and low without finding any that are still for sale. All the
>companies that made them seem to have been bought out and their products
>discontinued :^(

I still run the SOSS NFS server for my PC sometimes, and the NFS client
on the Amiga.

- John
Received on Mon Aug 16 1999 - 10:21:00 BST