Subject: Netatalk on Mac OSX
From: TimY (timy@darkhorse.com)
Date: Thu Sep 07 2000 - 13:04:55 EDT
I saw on an earlier post someone had asked about OSX, and how
netatalk would not be needed on for OSX. I think this is the right
post.
We have several OSX server Ver. 1.2 boxes here where I work. We have
been pounding on the NFS client and server portion of the OS. I
would like to report to everyone that it is very reliable and stable.
Not very fast though.
The appleshare version of OSX server Ver 1.2 is pathetic to say the
least. First and foremost you must have a HFS partition to share to
apple clients. This is not documented in the install portion of OSX.
This is very inconvenient and a pain. Since UFS does not support
resource forks. So all shares have to be HFS. This also poses
another problem. Backing up a shared volume. The best way we have
found to backup the machine is to NFS share the directories and back
them up using our Lagato software. Since retrospect does not support
OSX yet, that is not an option. I have been told that the Mac
retrospect has problems with a lot of files and resource forks. We
have run into this problem here as well and are waiting for a fix
from them.
The interface to control applesharing is through a web browser. This
is a huge problem for security. It is also very unreliable. Crashes
and hangs on the admin tool happen very often. It also is not
compatible with all browsers.
I would personally like to push to see netatalk on OSX. I would be
willing to help out where I could. I have access to several boxes
for testing if needed. I would also like to here from other people
running OSX server. I would like to know how everyone else it
tackling the backup problems. Maybe we just overlooked something.
Any feedback would be welcome.
One thing to keep in mind (maybe). Windows does file sharing
natively just like OSX. But SAMBA was built anyway, and it works
great. I see the same need in the future for netatalk.
Tim Yardley
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