AppleTalk on Linux

[R. McFarlane]

At 06:26 PM 10/4/2004, Eric D, had this to say :

>Wow. Getting AppleTalk running on Linux was as easy as 1-2-3. I would've 
>had more headaches getting FileSharing going on an OS 9 Mac!

         What? You've had a hard time turning on file sharing and then 
setting the hard drive to be shared? Two steps in MacOS 9. :)

>All I did was fireup WebMin and turned on atalk! Both our OS 9 and OS X 
>laptops logged in through an 802.11b network (well, the base station is a 
>NetGear 802.11g but both cards are 802.11b... I didn't think NetGear 
>supported AppleTalk over wireless but I guess they added that feature in 
>the 624). Maybe having Samba turned on smoothed the way but I don't think so...

         atalk runs over TCP so it has nothing to do with your network 
gear. I got atalk running on my YDL 3.0.1 PB 3400c with 2 servers (1 for 
guests and 1 for users). Having an issue though with atalk allowing 
read-write access to my HFS mounts of MacOS 9 and it's applications. Any 
one have any idea why when I mount my HFS volumes, only root has full access?

>Setting up the server portion seems hyper-easy now that I know a little 
>bit more than nothing! If I were to re-install I think I could actually 
>get away with doing a bare-bones server install and the one and only 
>non-base install thing I'd install would be WebMin (why YDL doesn't ship 
>with it I don't understand).
>
>Once you've turned on WebMin there's absolutely no need whatsoever to 
>physically come into contact with the computer, _ever_ (provided you want 
>to run it as a server and it doesn't "panic"). Well, I suppose if you know
>linux inside out the same would apply... but, I'm lazy so I'll go the 
>WebMin route!

         Best to know how to ssh though. It's a lot easier to carry around 
ssh clients than web browsers. :)

         Hmmm, there's an idea for my USB flash drive. Make it boot a tiny 
Linux distro that allows network access and gives me a full suite of 
network utilities. :D


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