Nwtworking PowerMac to Linux to Windows

[Leo J Mauler]

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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