Subject: Re: NFS Under OS X (was Re: pre-asun2.1.4-39)
From: Ryan McBeth (ryannm@magpage.com)
Date: Wed Jul 19 2000 - 18:54:48 EDT
Then I guess we have to decide if it is worth it. Is it worth the
time or trouble to work on a protocol that may not be used in a year or
two? Of course, there are plenty of schools that will still be using OS
8x and OS 9x.
Still no word from Adrian. I'm sure he's busy with things more
important than the gripes of an overworked SysAdmin. But I'll let the
group know his answer to the question of a new version when I
know.
Ryan
On Wed, 19 Jul 2000, Aaron Faby wrote:
> Yes it is indeed. I believe that Apple will be slowly phasing out AFP
> support in favor of NFS. AFP support will only be there initially for
> backwards compatibility.
>
> Aaron
>
>
>
> JAReD <jbenedic@zoo.uvm.edu> wrote:
> > > >The other big questions is if Netatalk is fast becoming
> > > > irrelevant. So far, nobody has yet to give me a straight answer on
> > > > if Mac OSX can connect to linux / Unix machines via NFS.
> >
> > I don't have DP4 but in one of the publicly available pdf's from
> > Apple (sorry I don't have the link) it clearly stated that NFS WAS
> > one of the supported file sharing protocols.
> >
> > _jared
> >
>
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