Re: okay, so what version should I use with 10.1?


Subject: Re: okay, so what version should I use with 10.1?
From: JW (jw@centraltexasit.com)
Date: Thu Oct 11 2001 - 18:32:11 EDT


At 12:12 AM 10/12/2001 +0200, you wrote:
>I never used osX but i can tell you that I would use
>samba or NFS over netatalk anyday.

I have used all three and like apple talk the best.

The first time I used netatalk on SuSE 7.1 it worked flawlessly without me setting up anything. SMB takes a fair bit of configurating.

I upgraded the box and broke netatalk, never had time to fix it.

NFS is a pain to set up and SMB is not a very High-Availability network protocol, IMO.

In short, I don't see any good reason to use anything besides Apple Talk.

>All the best /Mikko
>
>
>At 23:54 2001-10-11, you wrote:
>>> From: mikko@fs.sorl.net
>>> Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2001 23:20:49 +0200
>>>
>>> If you use osX, why dont you use samba?

Because OX X 10.1's implementation of SMB is pitiful. It's worse then smb:// browsing in Konqueror.

The connect to box does not browse the network at all, you have to feed it the full URL to a share: smb://servername/sharename

>>Well...
>>
>>1) I've always used atalk in the past.
>>
>>2) It hadn't occured to me.
>>
>>3) I can't figure out how. Searching for smb tells me "Choose Connect To
>>Server from the Finder's Go menu, then browse for the server or enter its
>>address. All I see is the appletalk server, not the SMB server. How do I
>>tell it to use SMB?

You can't. You just have to give it a URL - see above.

>>Chris

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