Subject: Re: [netatalk-admins] 1.4b2+asun and passwords
From: Rob Newberry (rob@eats.com)
Date: Wed Mar 18 1998 - 12:18:32 EST
> Since I'm not hearing from anyone else, I'd guess that it it was added
> to make netatalk servers more like other servers between the last
> umich version and the current asun version. I think it's a great
> idea.
I think it was added in asun's version -- but I am not certain.
While I like the option, I think it ought to be used via a compile time
option (or better yet, a command line option). I'm pretty certain our NT
servers are case-sensitive, mainly because I've had people say, "I can't
see any volumes!", and I go in their office, and change the first letter
of their login to lower-case (we standardized on all lower-case user names
for both NT and UNIX systems), and suddenly it works. Little do Mac users
know that if they changed the owner name setting on the Mac to
all-lower-case, first-name-only, these problems would go away.
On the other hand, asun has added the ability to use the user's full name,
which is pretty cool -- CAP has this feature. Still, since NT doesn't
support it, I leave my Mac's owner name as "rob".
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