Re: [Netatalk-admins] Unable to access netatalk share from OS 10

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On 22 Sep, G. Armour Van Horn wrote:
> I've seen references to the Samba/Netatalk cooperation in several 
> messages lately, and view them with concern. I see various NAS products 
> out there that claim to support Windows, Mac, and Linux clients, and 
> have been assuming that this was done with Samba and Netatalk being 
> incorporated. I live on a mixed-platform network, and have had Samba and 
> Netatalk up together at various times. Right now I just have an old 
> Windows NT 4 box, which supports Mac and Windows just fine. I've been 
> planning on updating my Samba/Netatalk box and eventually shutting down 
> the old NT machine, but if the combination isn't ready for that I'm 
> going to have to make other plans.

It really isn't a very big deal. The only thing lacking is shared file
locking between samba and netatalk. Otherwise, you should be able to
run the combination just fine. Last I checked, the appletalk services in
NT4 are very primitive. Dosen't even support AFP over TCP/IP.  Seems
like netatalk 2.0 would be vast improvement if only for the
performance.  


> 
> Van
> 
> Harald Wagener wrote:
> 
>> The 2.0 line actually is more stable than 1.6.4 and has complete AFP 
>> 3.x support, as well as utf8 encoding support for filenames, which 
>> will help if You need to share (some of) your data with windows 
>> clients via samba (but it will not solve all problems with samba - 
>> file locking and resource fork handling is still not transparent 
>> between samba and netatalk, and at the time being, none of the active 
>> netatalk developers have the resources to change this).
>>
>> Regards,
>>     Harald
>