[vcf-midatlantic] Donations requested

[David Riley]

On Oct 24, 2016, at 16:53, Dave McGuire via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic at lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
> 
>> On 10/24/2016 04:32 PM, Neil Cherry via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
>> Herb what would be needed to make a Linux box do Appletalk? Would that
>> work as a server for the System 7.x & 8.x boxes?
> 
>  See "netatalk" for this...been around for a couple of decades and
> works great.

Just make sure you use the 2.x branch; they dumped AppleTalk in 3.x.  My Netatalk 2.6 server can talk to everything from my Mac SE (with Ethernet, running System 6 and 7) to my 2015 MacBook Pro running 10.11.

Just be careful moving between servers, preserving the resource forks between machines can be a royal pain. Also be careful sharing files between Samba and Netatalk, as the metadata doesn't always play nice together.

- Dave