netatalk (http://netatalk.sourceforge.net/) is primarily of interest for afpd, an AFP (Apple File Protocol) server daemon.
The copy I'm presently running is quite old, but I see that newer versions may be able to support "Time Machine" backups, ACLs, extended attributes, etc. So it looks pretty functional to me. Macs can do NFS and CIFS, but some things (like the Time Machine backups, and like proper support in Finder (their file manager) ) work better (or at all) with their native AFS protocol. And their NFSv4 is still characterized as experimental, limiting some features that one might wish to use. (with a free-as-in-beer iSCSI initiator, they can access iSCSI storage from a system running Solaris; I've used that ok, but that seems less advantageous in some ways, and probably wastes space) So AFP support would allow providing them a full range of storage services from an (Open)Solaris server. Just a thought... (no, I don't know how to write a spec file for it, not that it might not be a theoretical impossibility for me to strain my brain that much, eventually) -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ storage-discuss mailing list storage-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/storage-discuss
