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From: Konrad Heuer <kheuer2@gwdg.de>
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On Wed, 16 Mar 2005, Tim Simmons wrote:

> Is it possible to set up a FreeBSD server to act as a gateway between an
> appletalk file server and a group of tcp/ip based windows PCs? What I'm
> trying to do is enable a group of PCs on the same physical network as the
> appletalk file server to be able to access files on that server. Windows XP,
> it would seem, does not support appletalk natively. Please CC any responses
> to me. Thank you.

Afaik, no, sorry. FreeBSD can act as an appletalk file server (by using
the netatalk port and the appletalk kernel extension), but it is not able
to mount remote filesystems via appletalk.

Mac OS X and Darwin can do so; thus I think, Darwin wood be a good choice
for you.

Best regards

Konrad Heuer
GWDG, Am Fassberg, 37077 Goettingen, Germany, kheuer2@gwdg.de