Hi, I've been given the task of trying to make some fileserver space available to a couple of Macintosh users in my department. Our main file server is a Windows 2000 cluster, with 260+ gigs of space (I know, I don't make the decisions, ok?). We would like to use space from that cluster because it gets backed up nightly. My idea is to set up a Linux box with Samba client and atalkd. I would mount a shared folder with Samba from the cluster server and put it somewhere in the directory tree, say /mnt/macs. I would then symbolic link the two users' home folders to /mnt/macs, so that when they mount the Linux box as an appletalk server (their home folders) they're really just mounting samba space that actually exists on the W2k file server. This seems to resemble trickery, and I'm not sure whether I can get away with it. I'm not sure what the Linux box would actually be doing in such a situation, and whether you can serve from a part of the file system that is really just a share from another server. If it did work though, it would meet our needs perfectly. I should add that the NT guys don't want to put any appletalk support on the W2k cluster. So am I missing something here? Wouldn't this work? Thanks for your help, Erik -- "Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse." Erik Mitchell www.erikmitchell.org mitc0185 at tc.umn.edu -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 232 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20020408/dcea021b/attachment.pgp