I run Netatalk on my linux server at home, for file transfers between my
Windoze machines and my iMac. It works very well and the two different OS's
do not know that the other is out there. I believe the netatalk is running
the appletalk network protocol.
Cheers,
David
-----Original Message-----
From: Victor Rehorst [mailto:victor@gear.torque.net]
Sent: Monday, March 20, 2000 6:24 PM
To: newtontalk@planetnewton.com
Subject: Re: NTLK Ethernet on Newton
On Mon, 20 Mar 2000 gopi@sloth.org wrote:
> On Mon, 20 Mar 2000, Gert Menke wrote:
> > > might consider getting a cheap Mac with ethernet that you incorporate
in
> > > your network.
> > Well, Linux has AppleTalk support, right?
> > Isn't that all you need?
> > Maybe you should consider using a real operating system on
> > at least one of your computers... ;-)
>
> The Newton supports IP as well, so the actual protocol isn't the issue.
> What AppleTalk software would you run under UN*X? AFAIK, a print server
> is the only possibly useful thing.
I believe it's also the only application in existance for Linux... at
least among freely-available software packages.
<snip>
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