Can you share files between Linux & Mac?

[Speedynick]

Hi Guys & Gals.

I'm a newbie to Linux. I trying to learn as much as possible about Linux so I can share files between my MAC and PCs. Any help will be greatly honored.
:)

[solo]

I'm sure you can share files over a network. I think it can be done with MacOS 9 (I've seen AppleTalk network drivers in Linux); MacOS X with Rendezvous would be the easiest way to do it though. If you have a dual-boot Mac, you can prepare a HFS (not plus) partition to swap files back and forth between the MacOS and Linux (Linux won't read HFS+ partitions yet, or at least not easily). Hope that helps :) .

[NewBlackDakDak]

NetaTalk is the daemon to utilize appletalk in Linux/Unix. It's hard to configure, but worth it. If you have OSX on the mac you can use NFS to share between the two.

[hlrguy]

Any standard file types such as jpg, mp3, ogg, mpeg, etc are platform independant and you SHOULD be able to share everywhere. I say should since there are ways to deliveratly make CDs, MP3s not readable by windows, but you have to go out of your way to do these things.

hlrguy

[Alex Cavnar, aka alc6379]

Netatalk is actually pretty easy to configure-- you just have to edit the config files with a text editor. Something to consider, though:

If you're going to use the Linux box to store Mac programs, get a program like Stuffit to make .hqx archives; if you don't, the programs will get corrupted. This is because Linux filesystems don't recognize the resource/data "forks" concept that Macs use in HFS and HFS+. Basically, you would loose all of your programs' resource forks by copying them raw, and that would effectively make the program useless.