[geeks] Mac file sharing

Jonathan C. Patschke jp at celestrion.net
Tue Jun 26 12:38:59 CDT 2007


On Tue, 26 Jun 2007, Sheldon T. Hall wrote:

> To put some Macs on my network, what sort of adaptation should I be
> looking into?  Specifically, what sort of file-sharing and printing
> arrangements will they want?  Is there anything else I should be
> looking out for?

If they're running OS X, they can get to your files over SMB, NFS, or
DAV.  You could also set up an AFP share, but I don't recommend it; most
of the software that implements it is crap.

If they're still running OS 9, AFP is about all you have.

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