Subject: Re: [netatalk-admins] AppleShare on IP
From: Andrew McNabb (amcnabb@argus-systems.com)
Date: Thu Mar 19 1998 - 19:26:38 EST
As far as I know, there are two big problems. One is the fact that only a
minority of systems use IP.
The second is that I thought that the old-style Appletalk was necessary to
do create the list of available servers.
On Thu, 19 Mar 1998, Jonas Blomberg wrote:
>
> Greetings!
>
> Now that the client side of AppleShare on IP has been available from Apple
> for quite some time, supporting MacOS versions from 7.5.3 onwards (if I am
> not mistaken), isn't it time to consider simply scrapping all the AppleTalk
> support in netatalk? I know that this may sound a bit provocative, but I
> would guess that only a very tiny portion of Macs actually connected to
> netatalk servers is unable to run the necessary Appleshare client software.
>
> I am not familiar with the innards of netatalk, but am I right in guessing
> that a sizable part of the complexity of netatalk stems from supporting
> appletalk in various ways, including modifying the various unix kernels.
>
> Using Laserwriter 8.5.1 (which I think can run on MacOS 7.0 and later), we
> can also forego AppleTalk when printing. Isn't support for AppleTalk style
> printing also a respectable chunk of netatalk software?
>
> So what I asking is: If one would rip out ALL AppleTalk support from
> netatalk and concentrate on AppleShare over IP, wouldn't we get a leaner,
> meaner, better product, without really losing anything?
>
> I don't know enough about netatalk to make this an actual suggestion, but
> isn't it a relevant question?
>
> /Jonas
>
> ---
> Jonas Blomberg (Jonas.Blomberg@Nexus.SE)
> Technology Nexus Secure Open Systems AB, Box 857
> 751 08 Uppsala, SWEDEN, +46-18-171800
>
>
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