[geeks] AFP tips requested

[Phil Stracchino]

velociraptor wrote:
> I'm going to disagree with all these folks pimping SMB/CIFS. :-)
> 
> I compiled netatalk by hand (it's not in blastwave, which I'm using at
> home).  You have to compile with SSL support, because Leopard won't
> talk to unencrypted afpd.

Did that...

> If you are running OpenSolaris, mdns is already in there
> (http://dlc.sun.com/osol/docs/content/SYSADV5/dnsref-28.html).  If you
> are running Solaris 10 release, you can compile mdns from Apple's site
> and use it for mdns/bonjour services.  I had to make a couple of minor
> source code changes, but they were trivial and I found them by
> googling.  (mdns is not 100% necessary, but "nice to have".)  I can
> probably send you a patch and/or instructions if you can't track it
> down.

Noted.

[...]
> I found netatalk to be much, much faster than SMB/CIFS (as in at least
> an order of magnitude) and don't bother to run Samba anymore *at all*.
> The only Windows box in the house is a VM under VBox, and it uses VBox
> internal sharing to access the zfs file systems.

Noted.  We'll have to see how it performs.  I don't expect Cymru to be
using it heavily.  I'll look more at finishing up the netatalk
configuration tomorrow.  It doesn't look like the config files are
complex.  For all I know, it was actually working and I just didn't know
how to tell OSX to connect to it.


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