From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 18 7:22:34 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from shumai.marcuscom.com (rdu57-28-046.nc.rr.com [66.57.28.46]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B089637B401 for ; Thu, 18 Oct 2001 07:22:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (marcus@localhost) by shumai.marcuscom.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id f9IEMT627993; Thu, 18 Oct 2001 10:22:33 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from marcus@marcuscom.com) X-Authentication-Warning: shumai.marcuscom.com: marcus owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2001 10:22:29 -0400 (EDT) From: Joe Clarke To: jasonla@pobox.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NetATalk, Stability, Viability In-Reply-To: <20011017230440.50600.qmail@web20704.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <20011018101914.Y27933-100000@shumai.marcuscom.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 17 Oct 2001, Jason La wrote: > I have a LAN of Macs, and the file server is a blue G3 > running MacOS 9.2.1 using AppleShareIP. It's pretty > unstable and we're having problems left and right. I would > like to replace it with A PC running FreeBSD. > > What I need to know is: > 1) How stable is NetATalk for FreeBSD? I use it in production, and find it works quite well. This, however, is a debate everyday on the netatalk-devel list. > 2) How compatible is it with current AppleTalk protocals? It supports AFP 2.x but not AFP 3.0. What this means is that MacOS X clients don't get the luxury of long filenames, UNIX perms, or Unicode filenames. It supports DDP and DSI/TCP. > 3) Are there any problems with storing Mac files on PC > hardware? Not really. Of course, the fun part is getting the resource fork and data fork to coexist. Like I said, I use netatalk in production, and it always works well for me. I maintain the FreeBSD port, and am active on the developers list. If there are problems, we usually fix them. Joe > > Thanks. > > ===== > -- Jason La > jasonla@pobox.com > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Make a great connection at Yahoo! Personals. > http://personals.yahoo.com > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message