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Apple, in an independent mode, as the company normally does release in the years of the Mac (about 1989) a network protocol called: Appletalk.
This protocol with simple activation in two or more Macs shares the entire computer.
To locate the remote AppleTalk computer we may run the "Network Browser", on Mac OS 9.2 or previous
This program present the following output:
In the previous mask the computers: earth, ftosx1 and world are Linux systems running "netatalk", while imacosx is a Mac OS X system running AppleTalk.
The procedure to share a system requires two steps:
How to connect an Mac to the Linux Intranet
To integrate your Mac OS Personal Computer (any, running any Mac OS version 9.X or previous as well as Mac OS X=10), you need to install the "netatalk" module on Linux.
The "netatalk" module is available also from ftp://ftp.futuretg.com/pub
After the installation you will see:
[root@ftosx1 root]# rpm -qi netatalk
Name : netatalk
Relocations: /usr
Version : 1.5pre6
Vendor: (none)
Release : 1FT
Build Date: Wed 19 Dec 2001 06:26:52 PM CET
Install date: Sat 16 Mar 2002 10:57:20 PM CET
Build Host: ftosx1.futuretg.com
Group : Network/Integration
Source RPM: netatalk-1.5pre6-1FT.src.rpm
Size : 596790
License: BSD
URL : http://netatalk.sourceforge.net/
Summary : Appletalk and Appleshare/IP
services for Linux
Description :
netatalk is an implementation of the AppleTalk Protocol Suite
for Unix/Linux
systems. The current release contains support for Ethertalk
Phase I and II,
DDP, RTMP, NBP, ZIP, AEP, ATP, PAP, ASP, and AFP. It provides
Appletalk file
printing and routing services on Solaris 2.5, Linux, FreeBSD,
SunOS 4.1 and
Ultrix 4. It also supports AFP 2.1 and 2.2 (Appleshare IP).
[root@ftosx1 root]#
Netatalk is not only for Linux but for any UNIX. Netatalk supports different modules: afpd papd atalkd.
However, in RedHat the command to start the service is the following:
[root@ftosx1 root]# /etc/rc.d/init.d/atalk start
Starting AppleTalk services:
[ OK ]
[root@ftosx1 root]#
[root@ftosx1 root]#
Netatalk may works TCP/IP or not. A ping to know if there are a connection may be usefull to start to work.
Therefore, is necessary to setup to setup the TCP/IP ... manually like
for example:
The mode how the sharing happens is the following. We activate the sharing on the Mac, and create a user, for example: "orlando" and assign to it a "short" alphanumeric password, like for example: "bodhi1". Then, we move to the Mac to visualize the "orlando's" directory on Linux.
[root@ftosx1 root]# adduser orlando
[root@ftosx1 root]# passwd orlando
Changing password for user orlando
New password:
BAD PASSWORD: it is based on a dictionary word
Retype new password:
passwd: all authentication tokens updated successfully
[root@ftosx1 root]#
Please use a short password otherwise you will not enter on the system.
| Now, you need to activete the share on the Mac.
This will offers a double view, Linux from the Mac and the Mac from Linux. Without this other Appletalk system will not visualize the Mac system. |
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| After this we can try to access the Linux volume from the Mac!
Choose the "Chooser" on the Mac OS 9.X. |
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| Now, enter log as the Linux orlando user inserting
the its login and password, as available on the Linux system. |
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| Now, you will see a "shared" directory called "orlando".
The icon may change. The icon on this picture is the icon from a Caldera sharing. The icon from a RedHat or FTOSX sharing is similar to the Mac shared icon. |
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Then we will see on the Mac the same data we have on the Linux orlando's folder.
With this facility is possible to copy any Linux file on the Mac and
viceversa.
Sharing on Mac OS X
The sharing on a Mac OS X, is completely equivalent.
The Mac OS X does not includes the "Chooser" for shared Appletalk folders and printers. Now, you need to choose the "Connect to Server ..." menu entry under the "Go" Menu in the finder.
In the same mode we can mount the Appletalk folders:
Of course, you need to activate the "Sharing" on
Integrating X-Window with the graphical Mac OS
Run the X Window system on the Mac OS is possible from 1993, using the appropriate product. For example, the "Exodus" product run X Window on Mac and NeXT from 1993. See and old advertising:
Note, how many product was available in 1993. XVision, PC-Connect, SoftNet
... up to Lotus 1-2-3 for UNIX. Linux is a simple re-birth of UNIX.
Today, because Mac OS X, adopt UNIX and therefore gcc, glibc, and other
standard tools, is possible to use and run
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| See a normal "mixed" session Mac OS X + X Darwin on Mac OS X. | See the konqueror that comes from other X Window system, in the network! |
Exercises (only if you have a Mac OS 9.x or previous or a Mac OS X system in your network).
Read the answers
to the exercises.
Check the Interactive Exam Cram Networking: 
Internet Resources for this Chapter.