[geeks] AFP tips requested

[Phil Stracchino]

nate at portents.com wrote:
>> (The server already shares the big share over both NFS and SMB/CIFS.)
> 
> Hmm, you sure you need AFP?  SMB/CIFS should work fine from an OS X client
> as long as you don't need to store forked files (less common these days)
> or extended attributes.

Shouldn't need to, but it's not working so far.  Can see the SMB hosts
but can't connect to them.

> About five years ago I ran netatalk on netbsd, but for the last few years
> I just use the netatalk that comes preinstalled and preconfigured with the
> Synology NAS I use at home, so I can't really help you there, other than
> to say I don't know of any free solutions other than netatalk for AFP (and
> that if you run AFP over TCP/IP it should work fine, you might just have
> to point the client directly at the server if the server isn't
> broadcasting it's presence through associated protocols).

How does one do that on OSX?


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