Subject: Re: Sharing *from* a Mac *to* Unix
From: Mario Klebsch DG1AM (mkl@charlie.rob.cs.tu-bs.de)
Date: Mon Jun 23 1997 - 08:29:51 EDT
Hi!
>I have netatalk installed on this one ... is it possible to mount an
>AppleShare drive onto my machine? Say just have a /mac_html directory
>somewheres or such? How would I go about doing that? Has this ever been
>done before?
This is almost impossible. The most important reason is, that the afp
is not multi user capable. When a Volume would be mounted with afp,
all accesses would be done using the same UID. There are a limited
range of applications, where this would be ok, but in general it is
not ok to do so.
You would have to do something like "personal mounts" on the UNIX box,
where every user of the system can mount his own file systems. But
most UNIX systems do not allow other users than root to mount file
systems.
But there is an afp client for UNIX. I do not know, wether it is part
of CAP or netatalk. But I did use it to access files on a mac. It runs
as a user process and is used a bit like FTP.
73, Mario
-- Mario Klebsch, DG1AM, M.Klebsch@tu-bs.de +49 531 / 391 - 7457 Institut fuer Robotik und Prozessinformatik der TU Braunschweig Hamburger Strasse 267, 38114 Braunschweig, Germany
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