Subject: Re: [netatalk-admins] Atalk over TCP/IP only?
From: Georg Schwarz (schwarz@physik.tu-berlin.de)
Date: Thu Jun 25 1998 - 18:15:33 EDT
> trying to setup "throw-away" end-user servers? Fetch is a pretty nice
> piece of software... But, for a supported platform, you can run
I'm thinking of setting up an AppleTalk server on a Sun that is in a
different ethernet subnet than the clients. Since I couldn't use
Ethertalk anyway it would be much of wasted hassle to include AppleTalk
support in the Sun kernel.
> IP-only afpds. You need not properly install AppleTalk support. You do
> have to compile the code though.
that means for IP-only afpds I don't need to install the AppleTalk
options for the Kernel?
>
> If you're looking to AppleShare from non-supported platforms like SGI
> Irix or HP-UX, look at CAP patchlevel 199 w/ ASIP patches. CAP's a
I know.
> hassle because it's a nuisance to put together all the patches, but it
> runs on more platforms and may be able to let you do what you're
> trying to do. Note that numerous aspects of CAP and netatalk are
> wholly incompatible (like resource fork storage). Also, CAP seems to
> have died. There hasn't been an update for over a year. But what I
> describe above does seem to work according to reports I've read.
for the reasons you mentioned I'd prefer to run Netatalk.
-- Georg Schwarz schwarz@physik.tu-berlin.de, kuroi@cs.tu-berlin.de Institut für Theoretische Physik +49 30 314-24254, FAX -21130 Technische Universität Berlin http://home.pages.de/~schwarz/
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