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oddie
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Linux AppleShare server questions
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Sep 16 19:21 UTC 2000 |
At school we have a Linux computer (flatirons.org) set up so that it also acts
as an AppleShare server, over the ethernet. Since most of the computers at
school are iMacs, I tend to save Mac files to the linux box fairly often. Now
I'm wondering how I can get these files from home. The AppleShare server seems
to split them up, putting the resource fork and some extra information in a
file of the same name in a directory called `.AppleDouble'. Are there FTP
programs that will recognize this and recreate the whole Mac file on my home
computer? Is there even a way to access it as an AppleShare server over PPP?
(I'm almost certain the answer to the latter question is no, but there's no
harm in asking :)
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gelinas
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response 1 of 7:
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Sep 17 00:48 UTC 2000 |
Actually, the answer is "Yes". The University of Michigan has been doing
this for the better part of a decade. (They call it IFS, "Institutional
File System", which is just a variant of AFS.) For a while, Apple
was shipping AppleTalk Remote Access (ARA), which required a server.
Recently, they switched to something else (Shareway IP" sounds vaguely
right).
A description of how UM has solved this problem is at
http://www.itd.umich.edu/cgi-bin/otfdoc?ID=S4103#samba
Your school may have done something similar.
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oddie
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response 2 of 7:
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Sep 17 03:09 UTC 2000 |
OK, so what I have to do is enter the IP or name address for the school's
server in the chooser, instead of choosing from the list above. Sounds simple
enough, now all I have to do is wait for our new computer with system 9 on it
to arrive (hopefully this week.) Thanks for your help gelinas.
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oddie
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response 3 of 7:
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Sep 17 03:15 UTC 2000 |
I'm not sure if we have kerberos authentication installed, however. In the
Chooser login dialog box at school it says `plain text' underneath the password
field.
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gelinas
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response 4 of 7:
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Sep 17 03:20 UTC 2000 |
So you may need to talk to the support folks there, to find out what they have
set up.
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oddie
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response 5 of 7:
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Sep 17 03:54 UTC 2000 |
Yeah. The manpage for afpd says that it is enabled by default, and it does
not seem like there would be any particular reason to turn it off, but we'll
see.
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oddie
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response 6 of 7:
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Sep 23 18:30 UTC 2000 |
Well, the G4 arrived a few days ago and we got it connected to the net last
night. I can indeed connect using the IP button in the Chooser, but haven't
got kerberos authentication to work yet. I will have to find out a bit more
about how it works and talk to the admins at school.
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gelinas
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response 7 of 7:
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Sep 23 20:31 UTC 2000 |
Kerberos requires a Kerberos server. If your school isn't already using
Kerberos, I don't think it likely they'll add it for this.
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