Re: file sharing between ubuntu and leopard



Munkeyjunkey wrote:

I have a Mac running OS X Leopard and a Toshiba M50 running
Ubuntu
7.10 gutsy and I was trying to share files between the two. I
have installed the file sharing drivers/files (i.e. Samba)

Samba implements CIFS, which is used by Windows. For MacOS X you
want to have an Apple-Talk server. Netatalk implements this:

-> http://netatalk.sf.net

To make the shares appear in the Finder you also need to install
avahi:

-> http://avahi.org

There's a HOWTO for Gentoo, but the scheme is the same for all
distributions:

-> http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Share_Directories_via_AFP

Wolfgang Draxinger
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