Networking between Ubuntu and MacOS X

[Eric Dunbar]

> From Mac to Ubuntu:
> I do not know how to. So far, I have been underwhelmed by Ubuntu's
> support for networking (SMB and AppleTalk) and my SMB server
> (YellowDogLinux) is out of commission anyway (the version that shipped
> with YDL 4.0 and 4.0.1 is broken and requires a minor fix that I've
> been too lazy to apply) so I cannot trouble-shoot SMB at the moment.
> 
> I suspect FTP would be your best bet. You could also set up a WebDAV
> server on the Mac side of things but that would require fiddling with
> apache (httpd) and permissions.

What am I saying? I must be getting old! Experiment first, then give up!!!

Turn on Windows file sharing in Mac OS X and you may be able to login
using Ubuntu's "nautilus". I'm not sure if Windows file sharing is SMB
or NFS (SMB I'm thinking).

Eric.