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In article <010220002127240410%Lee.Rogers@jhuapl.edu>,
	Lee Rogers <Lee.Rogers@jhuapl.edu> writes:
> I have a Macintosh G3 and a Intel-based Linux box that are connected
> via ethernet.  I want to mount my Macintosh hard drive on my Linux box. 
> Does anyone know how to do this?  I want a network-based connection
> (NFS, AFS or the like), not the obvious "rip drive out of Mac and
> install in PC" solution.  

In theory, this can be done with a package known as afpfs
(http://www.panix.com/~dfoster/afpfs/); however, afpfs is currently
ALPHA-LEVEL software, and so is not to be trusted. If you want to help
develop it to usability, great. If not, you'll need another solution.

Your best bet is really to install a package on the Macintosh that allows
it to use a non-Mac protocol. For instance, DAVE (http://www.thursby.com/)
lets Macs "speak" SMB/CIFS, and you can use that in conjunction with Samba
on Linux to mount Mac volumes on Linux. (I've never actually done this
myself, though.) Thursby also has a package called MacNFS that lets Macs
"talk" the Unix NFS protocol. (Again, I've not used this package myself.)

If you want to go the other way (mount Linux shares on a Macintosh), it's
a bit easier (or at least less expensive) -- you just need to use Netatalk
(http://thehamptons.com/anders/netatalk/ or
http://www.umich.edu/~rsug/netatalk/) to let Linux look like a Macintosh
server. Netatalk I have used, and in fact it's one of the topics I cover
in my book, _Linux: Networking for Your Office_
(http://www.rodsbooks.com/networking/).

-- 
Rod Smith, rodsmith@rodsbooks.com
http://www.rodsbooks.com
Author of books on Linux networking & WordPerfect for Linux