Type the user name and password (and optionally, you can click the Add to Keychain box). You will likely be prompted for your Samba user name and password from the SMB/CIFS Filesystem Authentication window, as shown in Figure 26-4.įigure 26-4: After requesting a Samba share, you must authenticate to the server. A Samba (SMB) address begins with smb:/, while an AppleTalk server begins with afp:/.Ĭhoose the server you want to open and click Connect. If you're not sure if the server is a Samba or AppleTalk server, look at the address at the bottom of the window after you click the server name. From the Connect to Server window, do the following:Ĭlick the workgroup name that contains the Samba server that interests you. As with the AppleTalk procedure, you open the Go menu from the Finder bar and select Connect to Server.
The procedure for accessing Samba servers from your Mac OS X system is similar to the AppleTalk procedure.
You can also request a secure connection over SSH for your login (which is a good idea to prevent someone from sniffing out your password from the network).įigure 26-3 shows the login window, along with the window for selecting connection options. The server determines whether you need to enter a clear-text or encrypted password. You can also select to send the password in clear text (which is the default) and be warned that you are doing that. You can have the password added to your keychain so you don't have to type it in each time you access the server. Use the options window to set up your preferences for logging on to the server. (See the "Sharing netatalk volumes" section later in this chapter to see how those servers were created.)Īfter you select the User Volume server, a pop-up window appears, prompting for a user name and password. In this example, the AppleTalk file servers that appear include the file server for a computer named duck, and two separate servers I configured from the same computer (named Guest Volume and User Volume). The Local group contains AppleTalk servers that broadcast availability on the local LAN. The shares that appear in the example above include a Samba workgroup (called ESTREET), an AppleTalk workgroup (called WORKGROUP), and a Local AppleTalk group. Plug your iMac into your LAN hub and you should be ready to use your Linux servers from Mac OS X.įigure 26-2: In Mac OS X, see Samba and AppleTalk shares from the Connect to Server window. The latest iMac computers have built-in Ethernet jacks that you can use to plug into your network hub. If you need to use a proxy server to access the Internet or other wide area network, click the Proxies tab and identify the proxies you are using. If you have configured your Red Hat Linux server as an AppleTalk file and printer server (using netatalk), click the check box to turn on AppleTalk network protocols.Ĭlick the Proxies tab. In this example, 10.0.0.1 is serving both of those functions.)Ĭlick the AppleTalk tab. (For a home or small business, you might have a single Red Hat Linux server serving as your router and DNS server. If you select Manually, you can add the IP address of your computer, its netmask, the location of the router, the location of the DNS servers, and the domains to search. Then select either DHCP or Manually in the Show box. If you are connecting to your Linux servers from a LAN, click the Show box and select Built-in Ethernet.Ĭlick the TCP/IP tab. The Network window appears for configuring your network interfaces, as shown in Figure 26-1.įigure 26-1: Configure your Mac OS X network interface to connect to Linux servers.
Or, you can configure your LAN interfaces manually, as follows:įrom the Finder bar, click Preferences and select Network. If your Red Hat Linux computer is configured as a DHCP server (see Chapter 23), your Mac OS X client can detect that. You can easily connect your Mac OS X computer to your LAN by configuring the Network window.