Best way to integrate Mac into Linux/Windoze network?

This is probably more of a Mac question, but I'm hoping someone here
can give me some direction.

I've set up quite a few Linux/Samba servers for networks with Windows
workstations. Of course Linux workstations can access the same resources
using smbmount. Now looks like I'm going to also need to share files from
a Linux server to a Mac running OS X. I've had little contact with Macs,
but know that OS X is Unix-based. So what is the best way for one
of these systems to connect to the Linux server? NFS? Samba? Something
completely different?

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Roger Blake
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On Sun, 29 Aug 2004 03:34:40 GMT, Roger shaped electrons to write:
> This is probably more of a Mac question, but I'm hoping someone here
> can give me some direction.
>
> I've set up quite a few Linux/Samba servers for networks with Windows
> workstations. Of course Linux workstations can access the same resources
> using smbmount. Now looks like I'm going to also need to share files from
> a Linux server to a Mac running OS X. I've had little contact with Macs,
> but know that OS X is Unix-based. So what is the best way for one
> of these systems to connect to the Linux server? NFS? Samba? Something
> completely different?

We have one Mac OSX machine here at the Homestead, It will connect to
NFS or SMB shares without much trouble. SMB sharing is doable directly
from the GUI; NFS sharing requires a little command line magic. I'd
recommend the SMB/SAMBA approach.


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G.Wolfe Woodbury `- -'
RHCT U
The Line Eater is a boojum!

On Sun, 29 Aug 2004 05:06:53 GMT, G.Wolfe Woodbury <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>NFS or SMB shares without much trouble. SMB sharing is doable directly
>from the GUI; NFS sharing requires a little command line magic. I'd
>recommend the SMB/SAMBA approach.

Thanks. Is there a "Network Neighborhood" type thing from the GUI?
(I feel at home from the command terminal since it's Unix but am
not yet familiar with the Mac's GUI facilities.) I assume that since
there are no drive letters, you mount remote SMB shares into the
filesystem Unix style?

--
Roger Blake
(Subtract 10 for email.)

Roger Blake wrote:

> On Sun, 29 Aug 2004 05:06:53 GMT, G.Wolfe Woodbury
> <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>>NFS or SMB shares without much trouble. SMB sharing is doable
>>directly
>>from the GUI; NFS sharing requires a little command line magic. I'd
>>recommend the SMB/SAMBA approach.
>
> Thanks. Is there a "Network Neighborhood" type thing from the GUI?
> (I feel at home from the command terminal since it's Unix but am
> not yet familiar with the Mac's GUI facilities.) I assume that since
> there are no drive letters, you mount remote SMB shares into the
> filesystem Unix style?
>

I had an iMac on my network for a while. Setting it up to share files
with the Windows and Linux boxen was trivial. There is an equivalent to
YaST or Control Panel and you just go into the networking applet. I
can't remember the "Network Neighborhood" equivalent, but there is one.
Everything is gui and easy to deal with. I'm sorry to be so vague, but
it has been a while and the machine is offline right now. However, it
is so simple it will be completely apparent to you when you start
working with the Apple. You don't need to do command line magic - this
is *Apple* we're talking about.

Malke
--
"I have a cunning plan..."

On 2004-08-29 08:25:52 -0400, (E-Mail Removed) (Roger Blake) said:

> On Sun, 29 Aug 2004 05:06:53 GMT, G.Wolfe Woodbury
> <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>> NFS or SMB shares without much trouble. SMB sharing is doable directly
>> from the GUI; NFS sharing requires a little command line magic. I'd
>> recommend the SMB/SAMBA approach.
>
> Thanks. Is there a "Network Neighborhood" type thing from the GUI?
> (I feel at home from the command terminal since it's Unix but am
> not yet familiar with the Mac's GUI facilities.) I assume that since
> there are no drive letters, you mount remote SMB shares into the
> filesystem Unix style?

The "Connect To Server..." command in Finder (Cmd-K is the keyboard
shortcut) will allow you to enter an SMB URL
(smb://servername/sharename). There is a Network object, similar to
Network Neighborhood, but it is unreliable (as is Network Neighborhood,
for that matter).

HTH.

--
Scott Lowe
Mercurion Systems, Inc.

On 29/8/04 4:34 am, in article (E-Mail Removed),
"Roger Blake" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

> This is probably more of a Mac question, but I'm hoping someone here
> can give me some direction.
>
> I've set up quite a few Linux/Samba servers for networks with Windows
> workstations. Of course Linux workstations can access the same resources
> using smbmount. Now looks like I'm going to also need to share files from
> a Linux server to a Mac running OS X. I've had little contact with Macs,
> but know that OS X is Unix-based. So what is the best way for one
> of these systems to connect to the Linux server? NFS? Samba? Something
> completely different?


OS X is ripped off from (sorry based on) BSD (but with a slower mach kernel)
so it is a Unix variant. You could go the whole Unix approach and do NFS
blah blah blah and get OS X and Linux sharing but why bother. OSX has SMB
and does the whole windows sharing as well as Linux (samba does windows file
sharing better than windows) so as your using it anyway!