question for informed minds

[avello500]

hello everyone. i was wondering if it was possible  to network a linux and a mac together. not to step on anyones toes, i will be using apple's for audio engineering. im not looking for specifics right now just would like to know if it's possible.
thanks in advance

[voidmain]

If you are talking OS X then it would be a breeze since they are both *NIX underneath. If you get TCP/IP configured properly on both you can use any of the sharing methods, NFS, Samba, Andrew, FTP, SSH, etc.

[xyle_one]

i couldnt for the life of me, get my linux box to see my mac (running os x10.2). but i am new to linux, and pretty much new to mac and networking in general. i could ftp for files and shit, but i couldnt "mount" the drives or folders. if you do learn how to do it, i would very much like to hear how you do it. it is probably something really stupid and easy that i just overlooked. i do remember hearing that redhat 8.0 doesnt natively support macs native file system. if that is wrong, please let me know.

[voidmain]

Supporting native file systems has nothing to do with network file systems. Network File System (NFS), Samba (SMBFS) and Adrew (AFS) are the common factor that make the underlying file system  types meaningless. If you could FTP from one to the other then you can use NFS and all the other file sharing services. I would suggest setting up one or more NFS shares on the Linux box (NFS Server) and mounting those shares on the OS X box (NFS Client) but you can do it either way.

If you have NFS installed on your RedHat 8 box just follow this short chapter:

http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-8.0-Manual/custom-guide/ch-nfs.html

NOTE: The first part of the chapter is for NFS client, the part you want is the part on "Exporting NFS File Systems". Then on your OS X box you would mount the NFS share from the RedHat NFS server by following the NFS client instructions in this OS X NFS page:

http://www.withay.com/macosx/nfs-client.html

Say you want to have an area of space that would show up on both machines you could create a directory called "/shared" on the RedHat box, export that directory, mount that directory on your OS X box as "/shared". Then you will see the same directory on both machines. Any files placed there by either machine will show up to both. It will look like part of the local file system on both machines, regardless what the native file system type is.

HINT: Before running the graphical NFS Export tool make sure the following services are turned on and started:

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and they have to be started in that order. And if you do not have a firewall you will need to take extra precautions not to expose these NFS services to the outside world.

[ November 23, 2002: Message edited by: void main ]

[xyle_one]

thank you void main. very helpful    
i will give this a try hopefully this weekend. right now my linux box is going through a "makeover" and it wont be running for at least a few days.
thanks again...