[wplug] Mac home on a network drive

[Drew from Zhrodague]

> Last week (Friday) I had a pritty nasty scare, my linux drive looked
> like it was going down the drain (good thing is the data is still there)
> but I will admit I don't do back ups like I should (sysadmins I know I
> hear you all calling me an id10t right now)  I am going to start doing
> them, but first I want all my data in one easy place My linux box (my
> winblows boxes "MyDocuments" are already there) so I would like to have
> the mac some how mount /home/mpop/machome in at /home/mpop on it (or
> where ever mac has home dirs)  So any one have suggestions of how to do
> this, I can do NFS or SMB (SMB is already running, I have done NFS in
> the past) or any other shared FS's would be fine.  Can this be done, and
> how would you do it?

 	If they are ancient Macintosh computers (Pre-OSX), you should be 
able to install netatalk, edit /etc/atalk/AppleVolumes.default, and throw 
only the paths you want to share in it.

 	Otherwise, Samba will work like a champ with OSX, and no wacky 
wierdness, as I understand it.

-- 

Drew from Zhrodague
drew at zhrodague.net
http://www.WiFiMaps.com
http://moblog.zhrodague.net