i am accessing files shared with samba by macosx from linux without any problem. you won't need the hfsplus. i don't remember what i did to set it up at the mac site (and i don't have a monitor attached right now), but i am quite sure it was the basic stuff as explained in the help. how are you mounting the samba share on the linux side? my guess is that you don't specify the user id that the mounted share should have on the linux side. if my linux users' uid is 1021, and i want to mount the homedir of user mdeboer on the mac, with hostname the_mac: mount -t smbfs -o username=mdeboer,uid=1021 //the_mac/mdeboer /mnt/mac maarten

ok I think you might be confusing things a little bit here... hfsplus is going to help you only if you take the hard drive out of your mac and put it into your pc. hfsplus is a filesystem. What you're dealing with here is a network protocol. so: These are the filesystems that a local machine would use on it's hard drives. Filesystems: Windows: Fat32 and NTFS Linux: ext2,ext3, ReiserFS, XFS, JFS (oh and it can read NTFS, Fat32, and HFS/HFS+) MacOS: HFS, HFS+ The network Protocols (SMB, AFS) are what we use access filesystems across the network. So if you're accessing files on your Mac from your Linux box, you can use NFS or SMB. If you are accessing files on your Linux box from your Mac then you can use AFS(appletalk), SMB, or NFS. Ok so this is pretty confusing. What I'm trying to say is that to talk the network protocols (AFS,SMB,NFS) you don't need the filesystem support for the other system (HFS+, or NTFS in a windows situation.) because everyone is talking the network protocol. Ok so here we go. Nice and simple. I'm on my mac. I want to copy files from my linux machine. if I have samba installed on my linux machine, I can use samba. apple-k (open up the Open Servers dialog) smb://ipaddressoflinuxmachine then you authenticate and go from there. you can also install netatalk on Linux and use the AFS (appletalk) protocol to connect to the linux box. apple-k afp://ipaddressoflinuxmachine ok so now I'm on my linux machine. I want to connect to the mac: enable windows sharing on your mac. then in KDE Konqueror or in Nautilus type in: smb:///ipaddresstomac it will authenticate you and you should be able to copy stuff over. I won't discuss NFS, because I don't like it. It's a pain. I've used appletalk over the last two and a half years, and I have never seen any problems. It seriously just works. I even setup a music server for my universities music library using linux and netatalk when they couldn't afford mac OS X server. So good luck. Art