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Grex Micros Item 233: Linux AppleShare server questions
Entered by oddie on Sat Sep 16 19:21:20 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 :)

7 responses total.

#1 of 7 by gelinas on Sun Sep 17 00:48:40 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.

#2 of 7 by oddie on Sun Sep 17 03:09:05 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.

#3 of 7 by oddie on Sun Sep 17 03:15:39 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.

#4 of 7 by gelinas on Sun Sep 17 03:20:26 2000:

So you may need to talk to the support folks there, to find out what they have
set up.

#5 of 7 by oddie on Sun Sep 17 03:54:07 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.

#6 of 7 by oddie on Sat Sep 23 18:30:57 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.

#7 of 7 by gelinas on Sat Sep 23 20:31:11 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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