Re: Mac and Linux

["Tom Haskins-Vaughan" <user=1517@nabble.blu.org>]

 Thanks for all your advice, guys! 

Ben Eisenbraun wrote: 
> On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 09:25:27AM -0500, Tom Haskins-Vaughan wrote: 
>> My current set up is a F7 server and an Ubuntu 7.10 client using 
>> NFS/NIS. I'm looking into getting a Mac for web development. What's the 
>> best way to integrate a Mac client with a Linux server? 
> 
> Since you already have NIS/NFS set up, I would just use it for the Mac client 
> as well.  It works fine for the most part. 

So would you recommend using NIS? I'd thought of just using NFS. If I 
just used NFS, I'd have to make the shared directory writable to all, no? 


> 
>> I'd like to have seamless access to my home directory from my server. 
> 
> You'll notice glitches if you really start using the Mac heavily.  E.g. 
> on 10.5, clicking a PDF link in your web browser will download the file 
> to your desktop but not be able to open it automatically.  Or Spotlight 
> not being able to properly index your home directory, so Mail.app can't 
> do text searches of the bodies of emails. 
> 
> I don't know if AFP has these problems, but that might also be worth 
> exploring. 
> 
> -ben 
> 
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