From owner-freebsd-net Tue Jul 6 1:35: 3 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from silver.komanda.com.ua (silver.komanda.com.ua [195.5.38.138]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 54B8D15048 for ; Tue, 6 Jul 1999 01:34:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sysop@komanda.com.ua) Received: from silver.komanda.com.ua (silver.komanda.com.ua [195.5.38.138]) by silver.komanda.com.ua (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id LAA03662 for ; Tue, 6 Jul 1999 11:49:27 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from sysop@komanda.com.ua) Date: Tue, 6 Jul 1999 11:49:27 +0300 (EEST) From: Alex Bulygin To: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD & MacOS In-Reply-To: <199907052028.NAA18917@slesse.cs.ubc.ca> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > For AppleTalk support under UNIX, have a look at netatalk. It's > in the FreeBSD ports collection (/usr/ports/net/netatalk). Thanks, Ive downloaded it yet from 2.2.8-RELEASE /packages. So Im going to install it and test soonly. > While my Macintosh network support requirements aren't very > demanding, netatalk has worked extremely well and I'm not aware > of any adverse scaling properties. At my office, etidors headquarters, Macs are used for publishing production so performance level is vital. Every Quark file is about 2Mb without images and quality of protocol realization for I/O operation on sever is crucial point. > netatalk's services are transparent to Mac users, so it's a great > deal easier to set up and administer than, for example, NetBIOS > support for Macs (like Thursby Software Systems DAVE for WinNT). And what about TCP/IP for this deal? Will it be so transparent for Mac users as netatalk? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message