On Mon, 5 Dec 2011 15:15:26 +0100 Oliver Burger <[email protected]> wrote:
> Am Montag, 5. Dezember 2011, 14:57:06 schrieb Luiz Alberto Saba: > > Hi guys > > > > Little time ago I bought a mac mini for use with my home theater system. > > It does everything that I was waiting for. > > HDMI output with audio (HD) & video, so I can connect to my denon > > receiver etc... > > The problem is: Lion can't "see" a share in my mageia machine. > > Googling a little bit, I found that I need netatalk (which we DON'T > > have) and a little xml for avahi (which we have). > > Following the "pie recipe" I was able to share my Media disk (2TB) with > > Lion. > > Then I was wandering... Why not make mageia more "mac friendly"? > > I think that it will be a good thing for mageia (nowadays almost > > everyone has some apple device at home (iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac...)) > > Comments? > > Just file a rpm rquest at bugs.mageia.org ? > > If one of the packagers is interested and has the time, he will build it. > I personally don't care because I seem not to be almost everybody having no > apple device and having no intent to ever buy one. > I'm not about to give money to the worst patent troll out there... > Sorry to get late into the discussion, but I have to say that using resources in netatalk is wasting time. OSX cat perfectly use linux servers via CIFS and NFS. You just need a Samba server on the Linux side (to let mac box mount linux shared volume) and on the mac side (to let linux mount mac volumes). ATALK is mostly deprecated: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AppleTalk volumes are shared via samba and printers via CUPS. Anyways, it does not hurt to have a netatalk package if someone still has some System7 macs around. All the problem probably is just to have a correct Samba+Avahi setup. NetATalk was much harder to configure the right way, from what I remember... I even got autofs working on osx, to mount linux shares via NFS or CIFS.
