Newbie Networking Linux-Macintosh

[optimusprime8]

Here's my setup. I've got an athlon xp linux box running redhat 9 (the version that came with "Linux for Dummies") and an old blue and white g3 400 running mac os X 10.2. I use dsl and I've got it set up through a lynksys router. They work fine sharing an internet connection, but I want to move all the files from the mac to the linux box and vice versa. I did a search both on this site and some others, and the only thing I found was this.....

http://www.justlinux.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=41706&highlight=macintosh

I could probably figure this out if I wasn't such a linux noob. I was wondering if anyone here knew of an easier solution or could give me some tips on getting these two machines sharing files. Even a link to a good redhat 9-mac networking tutorial would be great.

My only other problems are my mac monitor doesn't work with linux, see here..

http://www.justlinux.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=67073&highlight=macintosh

And linux detects my sound card correctly, but I can't hear the test sound.

Any help you guys could give me would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks

[je_fro]

As for the sound...try "sndconfig" as root. Maybe do it a couple of times.
I'd share the files by ftp, myself, and spare myself the hassle of appletalk. Assuming there aren't too many...just enable the ftp server on redhat to do anonymous ftp with uploading. Or you can login lik this:
ftp://username:password@linuxboxIP

I guess that "dummies" book is a little too rudimentary?

[dkeav]

osx comes with samba built in, so you can use samba, but like je_fro said, ftp or ssh would be easier

[Modorf]

in MacOS X you can mount a Samba (windows) drive by:

Finder -> Command + K

smb://linux_ip_address

then it will ask for username and password.
then it will give you the name of the shares you can connect too.

You will need to configure Samba on your linux box, but that should be easy, with many forums and help guides around.

For setting up an Samba share, I'm not sure, but feel it should be quite easy and then you can mount it in linux. Info for that should be around too.

[leonpmu]

But I am using Mandrake 9.1 on the my Athlon and my wife has an old beige G3. Appletalk is a breeze , as it comes bundled with MDK, I used to do the FTP thing when I was using RH, not bad, but then you should download and FTP app for your MAC, and besides appletalk is native to the MAC, so the file transfer speeds are nearly the same, I pull through about 2MB a sec on my small network @ home (10MB).

Hope that it helps a little

L

[optimusprime8]

Yea the linux for dummies book isn't so great. I was able to install fine but after that the book is pretty much useless. Once all the software is updated when you connect to the redhat network, all the script instructions in the book are now obsolete, and it doesn't give instructions for using the gui to do the same tasks. I much prefer the gui since I'm a noob, but most of the tutorials around are text based. I'm trying to figure out this kickstart thing, hoping it will help me configure my system to get everything working, anyone have experience with it?

[je_fro]

All that those gui's are, are frontends for a fancy typewriter. All the configuration that they handle actually goes into effect as text written in a file somewhere. Once you start making the association between the config (text) files and function, the battle will be half over. That's why so many people say "Bah!" to the gui's. Because they know where the underlying config file is, and how to edit it. It's easy, really. It just takes learnin'.
All the docs you'll ever need are online, anyways. Check out "rute user's" tutorial, and the The Ultimate Package Management System! (http://www.google.com/linux) .