On Sat, 2003-07-26 at 00:00, Jarod C. Wilson wrote: > On Friday, Aaron Konstam wrote: > > > 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 Robinson > > I 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. ---- not wanting to debate this but... If you enable a login message - any login message, OSX clients work. It's stupid but it makes a difference. I haven't tested the version included with shrike so I can't comment...I have had good success by downloading source and compiling my own, both before and after 1.6 versions. I'm currently using 1.5.3 on my linux server at home right now and I must be stupid but it's working fine. Craig -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list
