On Sat, Jan 27, 2001 at 07:20:57PM -0700, Robert D. Billings wrote:
> I would like to use netatalk to serve several HFS partitions to Macs 
> on my network. The server is a pentium based box running 1.5. I've 
> downloaded and compiled the HFSutils found in the packages 
> collection. But I can't find a way to allow access to these 
> partitions to the Macs without being able to actually mount these 
> using a mount point.

I think you're a little confused. There is no reason that a
directory served via netatalk need reside on an HFS partition.

hfsutils exists basically so that those using the mac68k and macppc
port are able to access their old MacOS disks from within NetBSD.

Simply getting netatalk itself running should be sufficient for you
to serve files to macs.

> Does anybody have any suggestions? -- I've cross posted this because 
> I believe that at one point I read that the MacPPC port had included 
> HFS support in the kernal.

You did?

I didn't see it on the macppc list...

The macppc and mac68k ports both (so far as I recall, at least)
have in-kernel HFS support, but for the reason above.

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