That's good info to know. Thanks to both of you... Jaimie
-----Original Message----- From: John Franklin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 13, 2003 4:18 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [TriLUG] Linux Fileservers & MacOS 8/9 clients On Friday, Jun 13, 2003, at 15:53 US/Eastern, Chris Magnus Hedemark wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > > On Friday, June 13, 2003, at 03:48 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: > >> Has anyone had any experience using Linux fileservers with MacOS 8/9 >> clients? Is the preferred method to use Samba on Linux and then >> something like Dave >> (a samba client generally used with Windows fileservers), or are >> there other >> solutions I haven't found yet. > > Linux will happily do Appletalk natively for you, so nothing special > will be needed on the client side. I'll +1 this with a caveat. The latest 1.6.2 release of netatalk is pretty solid, but doesn't include AFP 3.0 features that are in OS X. Most important of these is a limit on the length of filenames, which matches OS 8 (and 9, IIRC), but OS X will not be able to copy longer named files to the server. Long named files already on the server currently get mangled in a manner similar to FAT's Long File Name vs 8.3 scheme. It can also be a bit slow. Especially on larger directories. This is mostly because of the volume of requests that Finder sends to the server, which increases with the number of files in the directory. Real Macs are more-or-less optimized for the requests, but for everyone else it means a lot of open(); read_some_finder_data(); close(); sequences. On large directories, it tends to thrash the disk and blow the vnode and buffer caches on the server. I know the netatalk guys are working on AFP3.0 support. I'm waiting for a beta of it to be released myself. jf -- John Franklin [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICBM: 35�43'56"N 78�53'27"W _______________________________________________ TriLUG mailing list http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ: http://www.trilug.org/faq/TriLUG-faq.html _______________________________________________ TriLUG mailing list http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ: http://www.trilug.org/faq/TriLUG-faq.html
