[NTLUG:Discuss] sharing hfs+ filesystem on linux

[MontyS@videopost.com]

Greetings.

I have googled all over for this answer, but I can't seem to land on solid
information.

I have mounted a HFS+ formatted firewire drive on my fedora core 3 box
successfully.  I am able to write to the firewire drive, remount it on a
mac, and everything seems to be working as it should.

However, I am not able to export the firewire drive via nfs.  Exportfs
reports the drive as exported, but I get a permissions error when I try to
connect via nfs from a remote box.  I get the same error from a linux box or
irix.

I wrote an ext3 filesystem on the firewire drive, and was able to export it
and connect via the remote boxes with no difficulty.

Looking from another angle, I formatted the firewire drive on the mac as a
unix drive, whatever flavor of unix filesystem macos uses, but couldn't get
the firewire drive to mount on my linux box.  >>mount -t ufs ...<< did not
work.

I am not able to export firewire drives with fat32 on them either...

I have not tried samba (smb) as of yet.  My plan is to have a mac formatted
firewire drive attached to my linux box, which I could export via nfs to
various irix platforms.

Any ideas?

TIA,

Monty

ps:  Talked to Apple tech support.  They said that their client level os
wouldn't export any volumes via nfs, and their server level os wouldn't
export firewire attached volumes.  They couldn't tell me why...