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Date:      Tue, 18 Oct 2005 03:30:00 -0700
From:      "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com>
To:        "Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC" <chad@shire.net>, "questions questions" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   RE: Can't see FreeBSD machine in Mac's Finder
Message-ID:  <LOBBIFDAGNMAMLGJJCKNOEJFFCAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com>
In-Reply-To: <5042E50B-2ADE-4DE5-B714-53091C50AA45@shire.net>

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>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
>[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Chad
>Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC
>Sent: Monday, October 17, 2005 10:57 PM
>To: questions questions
>Subject: Re: Can't see FreeBSD machine in Mac's Finder
>
>
>
>On Oct 17, 2005, at 10:19 PM, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
>
>>
>> You have to run netatalk and howl, both are in the ports.  Then your
>> FreeBSD machine will show in Finder like any other Mac server.
>
>You only need to run netatalk if you want to offer afp shares from
>FreeBSD.  If you just want nfs then the howl thing should get it to
>show in the finder.
>

Right, but a lot of Mac files still use that awful resource/data fork
thing
that some idiot at Apple dreamed up and that isn't supported under NFS
that I'm aware.

Ted




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