Aaron
On Aug 2, 2004, at 11:31 AM, Mark Benson wrote:
On Aug 2, 2004, at 07:23 pm, aawillems wrote:
It's been my experience that AppleTalk is just too flakey to use under OS X. I'm a Network Admin for a Production Company in the Bay Area, and there are over 100 Macs on the Network. Appletalk works fine under OS 9, but OS X it just plain stinks. I recently upgraded about half of our network to OS X. I have abandoned Appletalk printing, and have switched over to Rendezvous and IP printing.
Indeed. Legacy Appletalk in OS X just doesn't work great at all if you are interfacing with older OS versions. OS X to OS X AFP (which uses Appleshare IP not AppleTalk - I think!) works fine for me - I never have any issues apart from the aforementioned aliases to remote shares issue. OS 9 to OS X works great too - OS 9.1 and later uses AppleShare IP by default if you are connecting to OS X to give better stability.
Second, I'm now having some of our users log into our Windows File Server over SMB. We still use the UAM from Microsoft to log in via afp, but it is extremely slow under Panther. It turns out Microsoft hasn't even bothered to update their UAM in over 2 years. I'm not holding out for an update. My advice is too abandon Appletalk, if you can.
If all else fails issue FTP clients ;o)
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