[K12OSN] Providing file services to Mac OS X clients

[Petre Scheie]

Never mind on the file sharing part; I found it, and you are correct, 
it's quite simple.  Oddly, I can't get access to the printer the same 
way, via 'Windows sharing'; it asks for an ID and PW and no matter what 
I put in, it fails, even using an ID that does work for accessing file 
shares.  For now I got around it using by configuring the printer as an 
IP printer and talking to it directly rather than through the server.

Petre Scheie wrote:
> Could you elaborate on that?  I'm going to be installing a server next 
> week, and in addition to the thin clients, there are also some Mac 
> clients that have to be supported.  I've got an old Mac with OS X on it 
> that I'm using for testing beforehand.  But I haven't worked with Macs 
> since before the OS X days when we used netatalk.
> 
> Also, how about printing?  The Mac sees the printer that the terminal 
> server is sharing, but whenever I try to print to it, nothing comes out. 
>  I did find this on the web:
> 
> http://www.tigert.com/archives/2005/05/13/mac-client-printing-to-cups-server-on-linux/ 
> 
> 
> I tried adjusting the syntax as the folks there described but still 
> nothing comes out of the printer.  The thin clients all print just fine, 
> as does my Xandros laptop which sends it's jobs via the server.
> 
> Mike Ely wrote:
> 
>> Petre Scheie wrote:
>>
>>> To those of you who have Mac OS X clients, how do I provide file 
>>> services for those clients?  Do I need to add the netatalk packages? 
>>> Or, since OS X is rather Unix-like underneath, can they just 
>>> NFS-mount the user's home directory from the server?
>>>
>>> Petre
>>
>>
>>
>> Petre,
>>
>> NFS works fine, but if you're among those of us (Torvalds included) 
>> who find NFS annoying, Samba works fine.  No need to hassle with 
>> Netatalk, which is only useful if you have to support OS9 clients.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Mike
>>
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