Thanks for the reply Aizmov.

yes, the volumes are HFS+ but their not on the same box.

my lack of understanding is howto mount over network.

"try:
mount -t hfsplus /volume/path /mount/path"

the portion /volume/path, would that include an ip or something?

just in case were not on the same page (assumingly my behalf) i have one box running suse11 one macbook pro and one power mac,(of course routers and switches and modems) and need to share files between them, and i prefer the AFP way because more services can use the protocol.