Subject: Re: [netatalk-admins] AppleShare on IP
From: bsmith@h-e.com
Date: Thu Mar 19 1998 - 20:29:13 EST
On Thu, 19 Mar 1998, Jonas Blomberg wrote:
> 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.
In my experience it isn't as simple as just having the IP AppleShare client. I
have several MacOS applications that seem to be incompatible with ASIP, and
require a DDP connection to be "forced" when mounting volumes that the
applications will use. These are very old apps, but I wouldn't still be using
them if there were some easy way to upgrade. The point is, even having the IP
client and the newest MacOS doesn't necessarily eliminate all need for
AppleTalk.
Bob Smith
Hammett & Edison, Inc.
bsmith@h-e.com
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