[cumbria_lug] Help with file sharing between redhat linux & mac OS X

[Martin Alderson]

On 18 Apr 2004, at 17:27, Schwuk wrote:

> guy.murray at boltblue.com wrote:
>> The red hat logon tells my NFS server is alive and kicking, but I 
>> can't seem to
>> get the redhat-config-nfs command to respond, either from the command 
>> line or
>> the menu.
>
> I'm running Fedora Core 1, and redhat-config-nfs works fine for me on 
> my dekstop (even though the service is stopped). I'm happily sharing 
> from my server to my desktop (both FC1) over NFS.
>
> Have you got redhat-config-nfs installed? I had to install it to test 
> it for you - never used it before...
>
> Is the NFS server actually started?
>
>> Is NFS the appropriate way to fileshare between linux and OS X?
>
> I'm not an OS X person (yet!), but as they're both forms of UNIX, I'd 
> say yes. I know some other people on the list use OS X so they might 
> be able to help more.

You may find samba is easier to set up. Apple aims itself at switching 
Windows users so samba is much more prominent in the networking of Mac 
OSX. NFS should work pretty well though - I think that's what OSX uses 
itself...

Martin Alderson,
IntechHosting

Email: martin at intechhosting.co.uk
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