Subject: Re: natalk and Mac OS X
From: Steven Karel (karelsf@brandeis.edu)
Date: Sat Jul 07 2001 - 16:54:26 EDT
Lorenzo Perone wrote:
> I've tried almost all versions of netatalk with OSX
> (and all the tricks like loginmessage, et al)
> and I tell u, the only one which is working reliably both on 9 and X is netatalk1.4b2+asun2.1.4pre37_test + client OSX 10.0.4.
>
> As for server platform, it is working thruout SuSE 6.3, 6.4, 7.0 on Intel and PPC, as well as on LinuxPPC 2000 Q4 on a G3. Haven't tried with kernel 2.4 yet...
>
> u find it here: ftp://ftp.cobaltnet.com/pub/users/asun/testing/
> (to be compiled from source. note: pre39 has the same problems as sourceforge-versions)
>
> The sourceforge versions don't work with OSX (-43 errors all over the place, when u finally manage to log in), and they will continue to do so until there will be enough enthusiasm to solve this problem @ the netatalk project maintainers and developers...
>From my experience:
2.14pre37 works fine with kernel 2.4.x (compiled on background of Redhat 7.0).
2.14pre37 does have some problems with OS X, especially if you copy large numbers of files (1000+) from a server, or on copying smaller number of files to a server. It's far from bulletproof.
The sourceforge 1.5pre7 CVS version does seem to work at least as well as 2.1.4pre37, IF you compile it with:
--with-did=last.
It would probably help the developers for more users to the test the current CVS version of the code. You can get it from:
http://sourceforge.net/cvs/?group_id=8642
Here is my message to the netatalk-devel list describing test with the CVS version at sourceforge as of about 2 weeks ago.
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> On Sun, 24 Jun 2001, Joe Clarke wrote:
>
> > Did you compile with --with-did=last? You need to compile with that
> > option to enable the Mac OS X compatibility code. Sorry for not being
> > clearer.
>
> OK:
>
> testing
>
> netatalk-cvs/RH 7.0/guest with OS X 10.0.4
>
> configured with:
>
> ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/atalk --enable-redhat
> --with-tcp-wrappers --with-flock-locks --with-pam --with-did=last
>
>
> the immediate "error -43" is gone.
>
> Still get some errors: on moving a large number of files to the netatalk
> server, I get either a spurious "file already exists, cannot copy" error,
> or I get "error code -37". On further examination, this seems to happen
> only when the files originated from OS X. If I move files from the
> netatalk server, then copy them all back to the netatalk server, or if I
> move files from the OS 9.1 partition to the netatalk server, it doesn't
> seem to happen.
>
> I _can_ move large numbers (>1000) files to and from the server.
>
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