On 04/03/2016 02:30 PM, Tom H wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 3, 2016 at 6:32 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> On Sun, Apr 3, 2016 at 12:02 PM, <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>>
>>> Back in the day I use to use neatalk the Linux AFP server but i'm not
>>> sure Mac OSX still uses AFP.
>>
>> Oh, brother. I used to *publish* the hooks to get CAP, the Columbia
>> Appletalk Protocol server, and later netatalk to work for SunOS sytems
>> to allow Mac access.
>>
>> These days, MacOS clients can use NFSv3 to access Linux hosts quite
>> handily. I'd use that, seriously. The tricky part is unmounting
>> gracefully: NFS is supposed to be "stateless", but never quite
>> achieves it.
>>
>> If you need better authentication, then look into CIFS (which Linux
>> and various network appliances use Samba to publish), or possibly
>> NFSv4 (which has much better user authentication than NFSv3, but is
>> more complex to set up).
>
> OS X 10.1 had nfs and smb as well as Apple's pre-OS X afp.
>
> OS X defaulted to afp until smb replaced it in OS X 10.9.
>
> If you set up samba on an SL box and have avahi installed, the SL
> box'll show up in the OS X Finder.
>

Thank you!

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