Re: [K12OSN] K12ltsp & Mac OS9

[Jim Hays <haysja sages us>]

Yes.  You can do this in one of two ways.  You can have an Applescipt on the OS9
machine scheduled to copy from the server or have a script on your K12LTSP
server copy the files from the client.  It looks like you are leaning toward the
second.  

You can connect to the OS9 machine with a smbmount command using the afp
protocol.  Something like this:  

mount -t afp afp://user:pass idisk mac com/user /Volumes/idisk


Quoting norbert <bear2bar netscape net>:

> Hi,
> 
> Thanks for the info, if I install Netatalk on the LTSP server and share 
> a directory with the OS9 machine I could, via a script, retrieve and 
> backup all the files to some device ?
> 
> thanks
> norbert
> 
> haysja sages us wrote:
> 
> >Set up Appletalk (Netatalk) on the LTSP server.  (Pretty easy with K12LTSP 3
> or
> >4).  Set up a shared Appletalk directory.  
> >
> >It really depends on what you want to happen.  To backup crucial files from
> the
> >OS9 machines, set up an Appletalk shared directory on the LTSP version and
> write
> >an AppleScript program to connect to the directory and copy the files.  
> >
> >or
> >
> >Share the directory on the client and write a scrip on the server to connect
> to
> >the client and copy the files.  This script could be run as a cron job.
> >
> >Either should work.
> >
> >(We are connecting OS9 clients to a K12LTSP server via atalk.  It works well
> for
> >us.)
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >Quoting norbert <bear2bar netscape net>:
> >
> >  
> >
> >>Hi
> >>
> >>Is there a simple way to have Mac OS9 machines (fat clients) exchange 
> >>files with thin x86 clients ? (Mac OS-X is easy via NFS)
> >>What would be a good back-up solution to a hybrid network of x86 thin 
> >>clients, Mac OS-X & Mac OS9 fat clients ?
> >>
> >>I know that I can setup a cron job to retrieve the files from the 
> >>K12ltsp server and probably the OS-X machine but what do I do with the 
> >>OS9 units ????
> >>
> >>thanks
> >>norbert
> >>
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >
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Jim Hays
Technology Director
Monticello CUSD#25
Monticello, IL  61856
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