On Apr 22, 2008, at 9:19 AM, jan gestre wrote: > > Thinking of OpenLDAP to use for authentication? I don't use it, so > can't comment. > > Tried it but it's a pain to set this up so I gave up.
yep. > > > Samba's easiest to setup, obviously. Works for both Macs and Windows. > NFS, had a problem finding a free client once... and it took time to > look for one so I simply just dropped it out or the project. > > I agree Samba is the easiest but can Samba authenticate OS X > machines? > Yes (don't know if this will be good enough for you): # A private directory, usable only by Fred. Note that Fred requires write # access to the directory. [fredsdir] comment = Fred's Service path = /usr/somewhere/private valid users = fred public = no writable = yes printable = no Again, i'm not a huge fan of samba... preferring afp > I personally use AFP. AFP = Apple Talk you need to enable the kernel > module, if it isn't. > > Is afp the same as netatalk or part of it? netatalk is the linux name for afp. ------------------ Cocoy "People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware." --Alan Kay _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
