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In <pete-ya02408000R1505971059320001@news.speednet.com.au> pete@sgt.com.au (Pete Rivett-Carnac) writes:

>Hi all,

>I need to transfer a bunch of files from a Mac 7600/120 running MacOS 7.5.3
>to an Intel box running Redhat Linux 4.1 (kernel 2.0.27).  I'll only need
>to do it once. Is there an easy solution?

>I have a 3Com 3C900-COMBO NIC installed on the Linux box (10baseT), and the
>Mac has 10baseT Ethernet built into it. The Mac has a TCP/IP stack (Open
>Transport), so can't I just run an Ethernet cable between 'em and xfer the
>files using FTP? Do I need to install a hub between the two boxes?

>Or can I just do this with a serial connection somehow, and bypass
>Ethernet? I don't care about speed - this is a non-production environment
>where I can just leave both boxes to do the xfer through the night.

>I installed netatalk under Linux. It compiled OK, I updated the conf files
>etc., but nothing seemed to happen when I tried to login to AppleShare
>(i.e. nothing appeared in the Chooser window). Any ideas? Is this overkill
>anyway since all I'm trying to do is move some files across?

>Should I look into Samba a bit more?

>Any help would be REALLY appreciated! Please e-mail me at pete@sgt.com.au,
>or post to comp.os.linux.networking.

>Many thanks,
>Pete

You can do it...
via ftp, via serial cable (zterm or something like that on mac and minicom
on linux) or ... just via disk if the file(s) fit on 1.4 disk.
Both the mac and linux can read PC disk and the linux box can even handle
mac disk... :)

Cheers,
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