From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 18 12:35:16 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fepE.post.tele.dk (fepE.post.tele.dk [195.41.46.137]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F63337B416 for ; Thu, 18 Oct 2001 12:35:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from Mikkel ([62.242.11.21]) by fepE.post.tele.dk (InterMail vM.4.01.03.23 201-229-121-123-20010418) with SMTP id <20011018193504.SSUA13021.fepE.post.tele.dk@Mikkel> for ; Thu, 18 Oct 2001 21:35:04 +0200 Received: from Mikkel (Mikkel [192.168.1.2]) by Mikkel (Weasel v1.20); 18 Oct 2001 21:25:48 Message-ID: <3BCF3ACB.C46@post5.tele.dk> Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2001 21:25:47 +0100 From: "Mikkel C. Simonsen" Organization: Dantimax X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (OS/2; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: Joe Clarke Subject: Re: NetATalk, Stability, Viability References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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. I have also had a Netatalk/FreeBSD fileserver running for a month with no problems so far. Clients are MacOS 7.5 - 9.0. > I maintain the FreeBSD port, and am active on the developers list. If > there are problems, we usually fix them. I do have one problem - printing! papd does not seem to like binary print jobs. And with a lot of Quark/Photoshop users non-binary jobs are the minority. If I try to send a binary job, the connection just times out. If I ftp the binary PS file to the server and send it to the printer using lpr, there are no problems. So the problem must be in either papd or between papd and lpr. Does anybody know where (in papd) the problem actually is? Best regards, Mikkel C. Simonsen > Joe > > > > > Thanks. > > > > ===== > > -- Jason La > > jasonla@pobox.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message