Networking between Ubuntu and MacOS X

Matthew S-H mathbymath at aol.com
Sun Apr 3 04:13:11 UTC 2005


This didn't work...
Any other ideas?

Thanks though.

~Matt


On Apr 2, 2005, at 10:53 PM, Eric Dunbar wrote:

>> From Ubuntu to Mac:
>
> Ubuntu side of things:
> apt-get install netatalk or go into Synaptic and install netatalk.
>
> Mac side of things:
> in Finder, type command-K
> enter afp://192.168.0.100 (or whatever your IP is)
>
> Login with your username and password.
>
>> 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.
>
> I'm sure someone else can give a more positive assessment of Ubuntu
> client-side networking along with some good pointers of how to get
> Ubuntu client-side networking working (it's never been a priority for
> me since I have MOL (MacOnLinux) running on my Ubuntu machine so I can
> boot into OS X whenever I need to access my network server).
>
> Eric.
>
> On Apr 2, 2005 9:45 PM, Matthew S-H <mathbymath at aol.com> wrote:
>> I want to mount my Ubuntu hd (formatted as ext3) on my mac, and I
>> wanted to mount my Mac hd (formatted as hfs+) on my Ubuntu machine.
>> Both should preferably be read-only, and they must auto-mount at
>> boot/login time.
>>
>> I was wondering what the best way to do this was.
>>
>> Oh, and btw:   They are networked by a wireless LAN.  Both are
>> definitely connected properly to the LAN, as they can both surf the
>> web, and I have the IP addresses for both.
>>
>> Thanks for your help :).
>>
>> ~Matt
>
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