linux as a workstation

[Paul_Melson@keykertusa.com]

>you can also look at afpfs/netatalk which does Appletalk file sharing, it
>is easy to setup, fast and I believe there are gui tools to do this.

On behalf of your network admin/consultant, I implore you not to put 
Appletalk/netatalk on your network unless you have to have it (eg. to 
connect to older MacOS systems).  It's a broadcasting, SAP-ing nightmare 
of a protocol.  It's insecure and has a very low performance threshold, 
such that if you have a network of 30+ machines, you will lose bandwidth 
to overhead.  Sure the implementation is easy, and there are no addresses 
or routes to configure, but there is a valid reason that even Apple is 
trying to phase out their own protocol. :-)

PaulM