Save your money. My company has been supporting a dozen+ Mac users by running Atalk on a couple RedHat Linux boxes and letting them translate between NFS and AppleTalk. It's deceptively simple to setup Atalk and all the users have to do is select the Linux boxes thru their chooser.

WARNING: Using this method we've found some Macs have an odd, ocassional tendancy to put funky date-time stamps on files. I've seen dates ranging from 1917 up to 2031. Needless to say, this causes some problems with our Solaris backup server. Hey, it's a free solution and simple shell script on the Linux box can find these files and change the date. (Although a better solution is to keep the Macs off your network completely! Macs are great but my experience is that they cause far more problems than they are worth.)

"Maglinger, Paul" PMAGLINGER@scvl.com@mathworks.com on 09/05/2001 03:16:36 PM

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Subject: Looking for Macintosh users

We're looking to let our Art Department (Macintosh users) have a wee bit o' space on our 740. I'm looking at Dave software, but would appreciate any input from other administrators who might have some insight here.

Thanks!

Paul Maglinger, A+, CET, CA, MCSE Systems Administrator Shoe Carnival, Inc.

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