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And with a GUI to manage it?
Googling hasn't turned up much. I know I can install Netatalk in just about any distro, but I really don't want to have to learn how to do that.
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[quote ztirffritz]What is AFP?
Apple File Protocol. For sharing data over a network. That's what Macs use. I mean natively because obviously they can work with Windows boxes to share data as well.
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Ubuntu is your best bet. If it doesn't have it, nothing else will out of the box.
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[quote microchip13]Ubuntu is your best bet. If it doesn't have it, nothing else will out of the box.
What makes you say nothing else will?
[quote MacMagus]'Can't install Netatalk?
Sure, but I don't feel like learning all I'd have to to install it and administer it via the command line.
The issues I face are:
- So I download it, but then I have to make sure I have compiler.
- It requires me to have sleepycats' Berkeley DB installed. Whatever that is.
- Then you have to configure & compile it. Not too tough, but I'm much better at figuring out configurations via a GUI
- Then you have to configure it once it's installed. Assign interfaces, netrange, node address...
It goes on and on.
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> I thought you were implying I should just install Netatalk on any old distro.
I was.
It's hard to do anything with Linux and not end up compiling and playing with config files. 'Might as well dive in now.
> I know Ubuntu does, but it doesn't offer a GUI.
No GUI in Debian, either. I sometimes think that open source coders deliberately make things complex as a measure of their hacker-cred.
Still, with the tutorial that I linked to, setup shouldn't take too long.
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Thanks. I'll peruse the docs. If it's simple enough, I'll give it a try. I'm not looking to learn more linux. I'm looking for a good file server solution so I can focus on other stuff and pay people who know (and want to know) that stuff.