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Re: Appletalk - Samba equivalent, is it out there?

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From: Peter Lees
Date: Wed, 25 Sep 1996 00:00
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Luke Amery (s2171663@cse.unsw.edu.au) once wrote:
> I have been asked to setup an intranet at a place that has several PCs and several
> Macs. To provide a http, pop and nntp server I will probably use Linux as it is a
> fairly cheap alternative to NT. However, to make things easier for my clients I
> want to be able to give them access to the parts of the linux directory tree
> (namely there accounts on the unix box so they can make there own html docs in
> their own public_html directories). I would prefer to do this without using ftp as
> they will probably find this a bit clumsy. I have successfully done this with PCs
> using microsoft networking and a samba server on the linux box however, I was
> wondering if there was something equivalent for appletalk on the macs.


CAP (columbia appletalk package) has a unix appletalk router (uar)  and
applehare unix file server (aufs) which should do what you want. you may
need to get a patch for it to work on linux.

more information at http://www.cs.mu.OZ.AU/appletalk/atalk.html

p

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