Re: Integration of Mac OS X clients
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On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 12:20:17PM +0100, RalfGesellensetter wrote:
>as I got it, MAC OS X clients connect by both protocols, samba and NFS,
MacOS X prefer its native file sharing protocol, afp (and more
specifically the Internet variant of it, afpovertcp). It also support
Unix filesharing (nfs) and Windows filesharing (smb) to some extend.
A Skolelinux student project decided some years ago that Macintosh does
not need its own filesharing protocol. I disagree with that.
Best option for MacOS X users would be to install netatalk and configure
it to serve either same shares or (as I prefer) read-only access to
smb/nfs shares and write access to separate afp shares. You will need
an unofficial netatalk, as newer versions of MacOS X enforces
encryption, which cannot be distributed by Debian due to licensing
problems (no netatalk exception for the GPL-incompatible OpenSSL
license). This is documented in README.Debian of the netatalk package
officially in Debian.
Simplest option is probably to avoid netatalk, but then advertise
_either_ nfs or smb to Macintosh clients. I have not tried this myself,
but believe that the proper approach is to install avahi-daemon and
configure it to announce the preferred service(s) through zeroconf.
Googling for zeroconf and avahi whould give you some howtos.
While at it, you should probably announce CUPS printer queues too and
maybe other services too.
>P.S.: Of course I am aware that the prefered way to go is to install
>Debian on those Mac clients. Is this BTW possible in a dual boot setup
>to keep the MacOSX?
Yes. Depending on the age of the hardware, it is even possible to
netboot them ;-)
Recent Apple machines (ie. Intel-based ones) use the
newer-than-adopted-by-Microsoft standard EFI, and thus requires special
tricks to dual-boot. More info here: http://wiki.debian.org/MacBook
- Jonas
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