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Re: Mac's & NE2000

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Daniel W. Forsyth)
Thu Oct 31 20:45:52 1996

Date: Thu, 31 Oct 1996 20:41:47 -0500
From: "Daniel W. Forsyth" <forsyth@wchat.on.ca>
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Joe Block wrote:
> 
> At 1:22 PM -0500 10/30/96, Daniel W. Forsyth wrote:
> >We have a client that needs a fileserver, we are going to install a
> >LiNUX server, but... As our Mac knowlage is very limited... I need a
> >little info on the hardware.
> >
> >My question is... to anyone who knows,
> >
> >Can we just hook the Linux Server w/ne2000 network card directly to the
> >Existing Mac network, run the appletalk drivers and thats it?  Or is the
> >hardware installation ie: putting the server on the network, more
> >complicated than that... Thanks.
> 
> It's pretty much as simple as that.  You need to set up the
> AppleVolumes.default & AppleVolumes.system files and turn on netatalk, and
> you're ready to rock.  There's a good netatalk web page that I forget the
> url to (found it with alta vista) that has lots of detailed instructions.

Yep, I checked out those pages.. quite good, but I needed some
re-assurance... Thanks Joes.. appriciated.


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