[Mageia-discuss] Why Mageia isn't a "Lion Friendly" distribution?

Tue Dec 6 00:20:28 CET 2011

On Mon, 5 Dec 2011 15:15:26 +0100
+Oliver Burger <oliver.bgr at googlemail.com> wrote:
+
+> Am Montag, 5. Dezember 2011, 14:57:06 schrieb Luiz Alberto Saba:
+> > Hi guys
+> > 
+> > Little time ago I bought a mac mini for use with my home theater system.
+> > It does everything that I was waiting for.
+> > HDMI output with audio (HD) & video, so I can connect to my denon
+> > receiver etc...
+> > The problem is: Lion can't "see" a share in my mageia machine.
+> > Googling a little bit, I found that I need netatalk (which we DON'T
+> > have) and a little xml for avahi (which we have).
+> > Following the "pie recipe" I was able to share my Media disk (2TB) with
+> > Lion.
+> > Then I was wandering... Why not make mageia more "mac friendly"?
+> > I think that it will be a good thing for mageia (nowadays almost
+> > everyone has some apple device at home (iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac...))
+> > Comments?
+> 
+> Just file a rpm rquest at bugs.mageia.org ?
+> 
+> If one of the packagers is interested and has the time, he will build it.
+> I personally don't care because I seem not to be almost everybody having no 
+> apple device and having no intent to ever buy one.
+> I'm not about to give money to the worst patent troll out there...
+>
+
+Sorry to get late into the discussion, but I have to say that using resources
+in netatalk is wasting time. OSX cat perfectly use linux servers via
+CIFS and NFS. You just need a Samba server on the Linux side (to let mac box
+mount linux shared volume) and on the mac side (to let linux mount mac
+volumes). ATALK is mostly deprecated:
+
+http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AppleTalk
+
+volumes are shared via samba and printers via CUPS.
+Anyways, it does not hurt to have a netatalk package if someone still has some
+System7 macs around.
+
+All the problem probably is just to have a correct Samba+Avahi setup. NetATalk
+was much harder to configure the right way, from what I remember...
+
+I even got autofs working on osx, to mount linux shares via NFS or CIFS.
+