On Fri, Jul 25, 2003 at 12:49:34PM -0500, Andrew Robinson wrote:I would like to set up netatalk on my RH9 installation for my home network.
I'm new at this, so please forgive the newbie questions. Looking at the
Netatalk How-To, it appears that netatalk is installed but not turned on
RH9. However, I notice the configuration directories and the /etc/service
entries are different than the How-To. Can someone give me some pointers on
how to get netatalk up and running on RH9? Thanks!
Andrew RobinsonI don't know what you want to do with netatalk. File sharing works pretty much as installed. If you want to print to an appletalk printer things get more complicated. What do you want to do?
Yes, what you want to do makes a big difference... Netatalk is MISERABLE for Mac OS X clients. For starters, I believe versions of netatalk prior to 1.6 are susceptible to causing kernel panics for OS X clients, so the Red Hat-included package is worthless if you have OS X clients. The second major issue is that file names must be 31 characters or less, while OS X allows 255 character names. I use OS X regularly myself, and I NEVER use netatalk. I use samba instead, since it has no problem with long file names, and OS X has a native samba client.
You'll also run into issues with files not showing up in shares if the .AppleDouble and .AppleDB folders (used for storing resource fork info) aren't read-write for all clients.
I don't recall ever seeing any 1.6+ netatalk rpms, and there are a number of compile options you HAVE to give for netatalk to properly compile so it works with OS X clients. It's a whole different story if your clients are pre-OS X, but then I feel sorry for you. :) I can't stand pre-OS X Macs anymore, and I've been a Mac user for at least 10 years...
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