Re: [Sheflug] Netatalk

[Steve Tickle <nospam [at] quarndon.co.uk>]

At 14:57 16/05/2000 +0100, José Luis Gómez Dans wrote:
>On Tue, May 16, 2000 at 02:34:42PM +0100, Steve Tickle wrote:
> > I want to allow a Mac user to share files on my Mandrake 7 box (kernel
> > 2.2.14-15mdk). I'e downloaded netatalk but when I looked at the
>
>         Copy them onto a floppy and make him walk over! X-)
>
> > README.LINUX file it tells me that support for Appletalk is already built
> > into my kernel. If so, why do I need netatalk and how do I share files 
> with
> > the Mac?
>
>         It's a bit like samba, and note that I do not present myself as
>a knowledgeable person in appletalk stuff, but support for aplletalk is
>built into the kernel, netatalk is used to serve files. So you compile
>your kernel with Appletalk support and then configure netatalk to
>(presumably) listen on a port for requests. I suppose you'll also have
>to do some authentication stuff.
>
>         Sorry I can't be of more help,
>         José

No apology necessary, that was helpful actually. It's me who needs to offer 
my apologies for being such a thickie.
Right, I've run 'make' and 'make install but got what appear to be some 
path errors. The makefile has 3 path variables, I've left the installation 
and /man paths as default and set DISTDIR to ../netatalk-1.3.3 rather that 
the default of ../netatalk-dist, the actual absolute path is 
/tmp/netatalk-1.3.3. 'make' seems to be failing to find some file in 
sub-directories of /tmp/netatalk-1.3.3

Any ideas? I can append the relevant files if necessary.

Steve


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