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by mcse944 1 view

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I have a Mac user in a Unix (sco openserver 5.0.5) environment. Can they save their work on the Unix box. What kind of permission have to be setup. They are using TCP/IP for the communication protocol.

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by stillatit

Easiest answer: Yes, using ftp. Set them up with a directory on the Unix box, give them a freeware ftp client and they are in business. Warning -- if you do this, the user should stuff files before sending, since resource forks are handled poorly by unix.

More complex: There are various commercial packages which will allow a Unix box to look like a Mac server. I do not know of one specifically for SCO, but I have not looked for one. There are also packages which allow a mac to use NFS mounts. http://www.rtd.com/pcnfsfaq/faq.html

See http://www.opus1.com/www/jms/unixnfs.html for a good discussion of the topic.

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Good luck.

by epepke

I have only one minor addition. Use Fetch. This is a nice Mac-like ftp client developed at Dartmouth. It has built-in BINHEX support so that it can encode all the extra information stored in Macintosh files but not on UNIX files.

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