Getting Macs to play with Ubuntu

Fri, 06 Feb 2009 14:21:54 +0000

I'm a fan of Unix operating systems in general. That's what got me interested in switching to Mac OS X because it's Unix-based. It was inevitable that I would eventually get a server-class machine again that wasn't Mac-based. The new Dell machine that I have running has Ubuntu 8.10 - a Debian-based machine which is something I'm new too.

I wanted to set up the Ubuntu machine to share files with the Macs on my network but not by using the crappy Samba protocol or even NFS. I know both are troublesome and not as speedy on a Mac. My only other choice was to get AFP working on the Ubuntu server and to my delight, packages exist for this. Netatalk is an Appletalk daemon and Avahi is a Bonjour zeroconf equivalent. Installing those packages and starting the services didn't do it for me. Leopard was having issues with the cleartext passwords being passed to AFPD so I went nowhere.

Afp on The Dangling Pointer

Getting Macs to play with Ubuntu