Re: IIGs networking...

[lee@lcremeans.erols.com (Lee Cremeans)]

In article <39517A45.6F1FA0B2@bellsouth.net>, tarage wrote:
>
>
>Eric Shepherd wrote:
>
>> in article 3950470A.2D9DD882@bellsouth.net, tarage at tarage@bellsouth.net
>> wrote on 6/20/00 9:39 PM:
>>
>> > 1. The IIgs will be able to mount folders on the Linux machine and
>> > read/write them.
>>
>> If you correctly patch netatalk to make it IIgs compatible, yes.
>>
>> > 2. Any other machine on the network will be able to write to these same
>> > folders.
>>
>> Any other machine that uses AppleTalk for connectivity.  netatalk won't let,
>> for example, Windows PCs use the disks.  You need to install samba to do
>> that.
>>
>
>*nods* I have Samba running so the rest of the network (win 98 boxes) can access
>the Linux box. Can the rest of the network still access these folders? Or does
>the netatalk patch make the folders strictly appleshare...?

No, they can co-exist just fine. I have an old Pentium 100 at work running
FreeBSD that's set up like this, and you should be able to set up Linux this
way as well.

-lee

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