From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 19 9: 2:35 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 E220D37B405 for ; Fri, 19 Oct 2001 09:02:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (marcus@localhost) by shumai.marcuscom.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id f9JG2Qm43355; Fri, 19 Oct 2001 12:02:26 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from marcus@marcuscom.com) X-Authentication-Warning: shumai.marcuscom.com: marcus owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2001 12:02:26 -0400 (EDT) From: Joe Clarke To: "Mikkel C. Simonsen" Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NetATalk, Stability, Viability In-Reply-To: <3BCF3ACB.C46@post5.tele.dk> Message-ID: <20011019120141.F43180-100000@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 Thu, 18 Oct 2001, Mikkel C. Simonsen wrote: > > 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! You may want to bring this up on netatalk-devel@lists.sourceforge.net. I don't use Netatalk for printing. My users print directly to the printers. Joe > > 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