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Post #13 by Cory5412
Source Forum68kMLA
CategoryTroubleshooting
Post DateSun, 1 Feb 2015 - 18:56
Original URLhttps://68kmla.org/bb/threads/imac-input-methods.1161/
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If you don't have a netatalk or Windows NT4/2000/2003 SFM server, I would use FTP or plain HTTP to transfer files. Right now, to put stuff on my old Macs, I post files to a folder on my web site.

If you have a Linux system and are comfortable with it, netatalk is probably the 'best' option, because you can connect to it like a mapped network drive using the Chooser on the Mac, and then you can connect to it however you normally would on your PC (with samba or sshfs or whatever.)

I have an old PC I run as a netatalk server and my PowerBook 180, PowerMac6100, and Mac mini all connect to it.

I'm not too well versed in this particular page, but there's some information about netatalk here: http://www.applefool.com/se30/

The gotcha is that I bet that page has information about downloading Ubuntu 9.10, which you should not do. Instead, download the most recent version of Debian, and just do an apt-get install netatalk.

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