Re: [seul-edu] windows mac network via linux

[David Tisdell <penguintiz@yahoo.com>]

As others mentioned you can use Samba and netatalk.
Netatalk will fo AFP over IP and if the AppleShare
client is new enough it will default to IP
(communication will initially be made via AppleTalk
and then switch to IP). 
You could put a PPC version of Linux on your Mac
server. It might integrate better with the rest of you
network but beware PPC support for Linux is spotty at
best. Unless you are a Linux guru and are intimate
with Mac hardware, leaving the Mac server on
Appleshare may be better but more limiting. Good Luck.
Dave
--- paul <psutton@uklinux.net> wrote:
> Hi
> 
> Where I work we have a room of Apple Mac (performa I
> think) computers. Afaik We have a mac server,  the
> rest of the site is on WinNT (I think) along with NT
> work stations,  I think the plan is to get the macs
> to talk to the rest of the network. so they can surf
> the net or allow the users to save their work to the
> main server.   
> 
> According to one of the technicians (I help him with
> cabling etc),  the TCP/IP can also talk appletalk, 
> I am not sure about this but I have read that it's
> possible to stick a linux box in between the two
> systems.As Linux can talk and understand both it can
> act as a I would guess a translator or whatever the
> correct term is,  allowing both to co-exist,
> (someone in the US did this a few years ago,  I
> can't seem to find the write up though). 
> 
> If it's possible I could have a go, as there seems
> to be quite a lot of old kit lying around so we
> could make use of it,  as it should not need a super
> duper computer to do this,  just something low
> powered with a nice amount of ram (for linux
> anything 16mb + I guess). 
> 
> As I said,  I not sure about how well TCP/IP and
> appletalk communicate,  Looking through my sams TYS
> tcp/ip in 24 hrs I can't see any references to
> appletalk,  so it's either not supported or needs
> some sort of extentions or something. 
> 
> 
> Has anyone got any experience of this,  I will have
> a look on the LDP site, and on the net,  any advice
> would be great,  I can then propose to one ot the
> techs about this.
> 
> thanks
> 
> Paul 
> 
> 


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