Subject: Re: netatalk in production environments....(RFC)
From: S.Ecker (emmet___@yahoo.com)
Date: Wed May 31 2000 - 20:56:47 EDT
(slightly OT) What I want to know is what the
commercial linux hardware/software resellers are using
when they say they support Appletalk protocol for file
sharing. Cobalt (www.cobalt.com) sells linux
file/mail/dns/etc servers for windows/unix/mac
environments, but they don't say what they use for
their Appletalk server protocol. If they're using
netatalk, aren't they taking a great risk by deploying
unsupported server code to their customers?
-Scott
--- andrew morgan <morgan@orst.edu> wrote:
>
>
> On Wed, 31 May 2000, Daniel E. Lautenschleger wrote:
>
> > 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?
>
> There are a few people contributing to parts of
> netatalk at least. Andras
> Kadinger and I have made some improvements to papd
> recently, but Adrian is
> the only one making substantial changes to afpd that
> I know of.
>
> > 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.
>
> I haven't heard a word from him for a while either.
> I've submitted some
> patches to him directly, but I haven't received any
> response. I hope he
> is okay!
>
> > 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 mailing list are *way* out of date as well.
>
> The documentation is definately lacking, especially
> some simple
> installation instructions. Fortunately, this is
> something netatalk users
> without programming experience can contribute!
>
> > 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:-)
>
> If Adrian Sun is really out of the picture, maybe we
> should grab the
> latest code and start a site on SourceForge for a
> more collaborative
> development environment... That would allow the
> rest of the community to
> contribute code and documentation without having to
> funnel it through
> Adrian.
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> Andy
>
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