[GLLUG] MAC OS9

[David D]

Appletalk is kinda a scarry thought with 80 Macs all on a flat network
(along with 500 other devices).  Is there an issue with it being chatty?

These machines are slated to be updated to OSx by end of August and Netatalk
seems like it would be the easiest to implement and de-implement but the
traffic has me a little worried...

Thoughts?


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Matt Graham" <danceswithcrows at usa.net>
To: <linux-user at egr.msu.edu>
Sent: Thursday, July 07, 2005 5:11 PM
Subject: Re: [GLLUG] MAC OS9


> On Thursday 07 July 2005 16:45, after a long battle with technology,
> David D wrote:
> > Can anyone talk me through connecting MAC's running OS9 to my SUSE
> > box through Samba or whatever I would use for file access?
> > What I know so far is that APPLE states I need a third party
> > software...
>
> Yep.  If you want to use Samba, DAVE client for MacOS 9 seems to work
> pretty well.  It's payware.
>
> If you want to use Appletalk (requires no payware on the Mac end), then
> you have to install netatalk on the Linux machine, edit some files
> in /etc/atalk/ , and "/etc/init.d/atalk start".  This is a decent
> solution, but netatalk's documentation is kind of obscure.  There are
> also *no* utilities for diagnosing atalk problems on Linux, nor are
> there any working kernel- or user-space utilities for Linux that allow
> you to mount Appletalk-shared filesystems.  (I guess this is because
> Appletalk isn't run over IP, and everything else you see these days
> *is*.)
>
> > And no OSX is not an option at this time...
>
> MacOS 9 has essentially been abandoned.  (Good riddance; there's no
> excuse for cooperative multitasking and no memory protection.)  If you
> wish to continue using Macs, you will eventually be forced into using
> OS X, if only because the programs you need to run will not be
> available for MacOS 9.  HTH,
>
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