Subject: Re: netatalk in production environments....(RFC)
From: Daniel E. Lautenschleger (dan@www.molbio.wisc.edu)
Date: Wed May 31 2000 - 15:34:27 EDT
Are these tweaks, changes and mods incorporated into a new
version of Netatalk on a frequent enough basis? Is Adrian Sun the only
person who maintains the Netatalk program any longer?
By the way, where has he been? He used to post quite frequently and I have
not seen a posting in quite a long time.
It appears that the folks at the University of Michigan now view Netatalk
as an open source program. Frankly, I use the program and am excited about
its potential, but am not pleased with the documentation and
updating issues surrounding Netatalk. It appears the archives of the
mailing list are *way* out of date as well.
I realize it is a free program and am mostly satisfied with the results
I've had using the program. I too want to roll this product out on a much
larger scale than I have already, but it just isn't ready for prime time
yet. I only wish my programming skills were up to snuff so that I could
contribute in a positive manner.
I'm complaining out of frustration, folks. I really hope to someday be
serving 200+ Mac clients of my Linux boxes using Netatalk:-)
Daniel E. Lautenschleger
University of Wisconsin
R.M. Bock Laboratories
Network Administrator and Computer Support
dan@www.molbio.wisc.edu
608.262.3403
On Thu, 1 Jun 2000, Marcus Radich wrote:
> At 7:53 pm +0200 31/5/2000, Patrik Schindler wrote:
> >At 18:24 Uhr +0100 31.05.2000, Sak Wathanasin wrote:
> >
> > >You may not have a choice: applications may save aliases in their
> > >data or pref files. Eg I think Quark Express does this when you embed
> > >links to other docs. This is compounded by the fact that this is
> > >Apple-recommended practice (to save aliases rather than pathnames).
> >
> >Yes, you're right.
> >Fortunately I'm not using such appls :-)
> >
> >:wq! PoC
>
> This is *not* the case with QuarkXPress. Any files with embedded
> links saved to a netatalk server will retain those links from session
> to session - there is no problem with asun37b. Freehand is the only
> app with a problem. 99% of our customers use Quark on a daily basis,
> and they have no complaints! (We did have to tickle the makefile to
> get it to work with OS9/G4s)
> However, if you do use an app which ONLY stores the alias as a file
> reference, you will have problems. QuarkXPress, Photoshop,
> Illustrator, Dreamweaver, Fireworks, Word, Excel, Powerpoint, and
> Filemaker don't have this issue. Tried and tested in over 20 sites.
>
> mrad01
>
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> "Always ask the question, never assume the answer."
> Marcus Radich 1999
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