[Gllug] Serving files to Mac clients

Richard Jones rich at annexia.org
Sat Jan 3 00:07:21 UTC 2009


Does anyone have any experience serving files from Linux to Mac
clients (Mac OS X 10.4 and up)?  I'm wondering if I should use samba,
netatalk or NFS -- specifically which one is "better" for Mac clients.
AFAICT Macs can handle all three.

The only must-have requirements are clicky-clicky ease of use (for the
client), proper authentication, and the Mac should be able to handle
disconnection/outages of the server gracefully.

Rich.

Update: Which is worse -- that netatalk requires kernel modules, or
that we [Red Hat] don't compile them in by default in our kernel ?!!

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