Networking PowerMac to Linux to Windows
Leo J Mauler
webgiant at juno.com
Sun Jul 4 22:22:31 CDT 2004
On Sun, 04 Jul 2004 14:47:23 -0500 Brian Kelsay <bkelsay at comcast.net>
writes:
> Leo J Mauler wrote:
> > I've got a PowerMac running Mac OS 8.1, and I'd like to
> > link it up to a Linux server somehow. I don't have the cash
> > to buy a Macintosh SAMBA client ($120????) so I was
> > thinking about trying out netatalk as NFS continues to
> > frighten me (and Mac NFS clients are pricey too).
> >
> > Has anyone else ever managed this? Does Mac OS 8.1
> > come pre-installed with all the stuff it needs for regular
> > network connections? The system already has a PCI
> > Ethernet card, it connects to the Internet through a
> > shared cable modem connection, and the Mac gets a
> > dynamic IP from the DHCP server on the router.
> >
> > Part of the situation is that I'd like to link the PowerMac
> > to certain hard drives on a Windows PC I have. Since
> > there's no free Mac SAMBA client for pre-Mac OS X
> > machines, I was thinking about a convoluted solution
> > involving mounting the Windows PC drives over the
> > network onto the Linux machine, then sharing those
> > network mounted PC drives to the PowerMac via netatalk.
>
> Leo, linux can talk mac netatalk, so you just network the
> mac in mac ways. The linux box looks and acts like a mac
> to the mac. Mac attack!!
I understand this, I've seen the native netatalk support in Linux for
years now (never used it before though).
The problem is that the Linux server would be serving up a network drive
to the Macintosh which was actually a SAMBA share from a Windows PC.
What I was wondering is how much of a drain on system resources this will
be. In other words, can I use a Pentium-200Mhz machine to handle the
server end, or will I need a faster machine to handle the fact that two
separate and distinct networking protocols will be operating
simultaneously on the same files?
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On Sun, 4 Jul 2004 11:38:38 -0500 crash 3m <crash3m at gmail.com> writes:
> On Sun, 4 Jul 2004 08:50:57 -0500, Leo J Mauler <webgiant at juno.com>
> wrote:
>
> > I've got a PowerMac running Mac OS 8.1, and I'd like to link it up
> > to a Linux server somehow. I don't have the cash to buy a Macintosh
> > SAMBA client ($120????) so I was thinking about trying out netatalk
> > as NFScontinues to frighten me (and Mac NFS clients are pricey too).
> >
> > Has anyone else ever managed this? Does Mac OS 8.1 come
> > pre-installed with all the stuff it needs for regular network
connections?
> > The system already has a PCI Ethernet card, it connects to the
Internet
> > through a shared cable modem connection, and the Mac gets a dynamic
> > IP from the DHCP server on the router.
> >
> > Part of the situation is that I'd like to link the PowerMac to
certain
> > hard drives on a Windows PC I have. Since there's no free Mac
> > SAMBA client for pre-Mac OS X machines, I was thinking about a
> > convoluted solution involving mounting the Windows PC drives over
> > the network onto the Linux machine, then sharing those network
> > mounted PC drives to the PowerMac via netatalk.
>
> I dont think the solution you've considered of using samba/netatalk
> is convuluted, I think it would be a great use of the tools at hand.
I was trying to say something more like "complicated", in that there's
several steps involved instead of just dropping PC MACLAN on the Windows
PC, DAVE on the Mac, or a copy of PC-MAC-NET on both machines.
And why is it that there are no free Macintosh SAMBA clients? Is it that
Mac OS X comes with the PC-to-Mac functionality and that SAMBA only
started getting interesting around the time OS X came out?
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