Re: [SLUG] Mac + Win Sharing via Linux

2003-12-14 Thread Gottfried Szing
hi tom Then I spent several hours trying to get WinXP Pro to see Samba shares. WinXP now has the distinction of being the only OS that has ever caused me to seriously consider physical violence towards a computer. that is something that every win-version is causing me. it is not only a feature of

Re: [SLUG] Mac + Win Sharing via Linux

2003-12-14 Thread Jasper streit
H, I must say that i didn't have any troubles getting XP to see my samba share points. Though i must say that on my network i don't have any authentication- i.e anybody can read/write to the samba share point. I'm on my laptop at the moment so i can't tell you what the version of samba it i

Re: [SLUG] Mac + Win Sharing via Linux

2003-12-14 Thread Tom Massey
Hi again, Thanks for the suggestions. I spent today working on it. Internet sharing was easy, basic iptables setup. I may get squid involved later. The Mac/Netatalk side of things was a snap, took 10 minutes to setup a directory on the Linux machine that was shared to the Macs via Netatalk, sho

Re: [SLUG] Mac + Win Sharing via Linux

2003-12-13 Thread Grant Parnell
I had a client that was an advertising firm doing basically what you're thinking here on a much larger scale. Samba & Netatalk can operate off the same directories & share the same files and locking can be a problem depending on how it's implimented. MS-Word for example writes a second file to l

Re: [SLUG] Mac + Win Sharing via Linux

2003-12-13 Thread Richard Hayes
At 11:48 PM 12/13/2003 +1100, Tom Massey wrote: I'm looking for a way to have a Mac LAN and Win LAN share internet access, printing, and files. I think that a Linux machine somewhere in the mix might do the job. Yes, it is one of the easier ways to connect them Basic situation is that my Dad h

[SLUG] Mac + Win Sharing via Linux

2003-12-13 Thread Tom Massey
Morning all, I'm looking for a way to have a Mac LAN and Win LAN share internet access, printing, and files. I think that a Linux machine somewhere in the mix might do the job. Basic situation is that my Dad has a bunch of Mac OS 9.x machines, he's going to share office space with a friend runnin