Subject: Re: Mac OS X and netatalk...
From: Leland Wallace (randall@apple.com)
Date: Thu Apr 05 2001 - 16:53:58 EDT
Folks,
No need to be cynical, Apple has been and will keep helping the
netatalk
project. I and my engineers have been in communication with Adrian, and
other folks from the sourceforge effort. I have had no directives from my
management to the contrary. At least one of the problems with copying
from
the Mac OS X client is related to the behavior of the CloseFork call.
The other
is with advertising a 4Gig (maxint) buffer size in the options
negotiation
(we fixed our end for GM).
One thing that you can be sure of, the Mac OS X client is a complete
rewrite
and as such the patterns of calls will be different.
Hope this helps
Leland Wallace
AppleShare Client Lead
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Leland Wallace Working in AppleShare Engineering
randall@apple.com but not speaking for Apple Computer Inc.
http://www2.inow.com/~randall
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On Tuesday, April 3, 2001, at 06:52 PM, Temple, Matthew H. wrote:
> All,
>
> Once upon a time in a land far away, Apple and Digital Equipment
> actually
> worked together to port a genuine appletalk stack for VMS/Ultix/Dec
> Unix. I
> think
> Sun was in on this too.
> Unfortunately, after that product became Pacer software it was bought
> by a
> cannibal company and later destroyed. CAP and Netatalk have done
> quite well
> up to this point, but a little help/cooperation with/from Apple would
> be handy.
> I suppose that since they've got their own Unix product right now, they
> probably won't be pushing hard to insinuate themselve into the netatalk
> world.
> From their unwillingness to port to Intel, etc., you see how they
> studiously
> avoid having a larger market share unless it just can't be avoided.
>
> mht
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: QUIGLEY,JASON (HP-Spain,ex1)
> To: Lorenzo Perone
> Cc: Netatalk-Admins@umich.edu
> Sent: 4/3/01 7:23 PM
> Subject: Re: Mac OS X and netatalk...
>
> Hi Lorenzo!
>
> A little late perhaps, I have been rebuilding my work system and mail
> archives (Beta 2 trashed the hard disk type problems!!).
>
> Anyway, the option you should be trying is: -DUSE_FLOCK_LOCKS
>
> I tried this for myself but didn't get much joy. It's been mentioned
> that it's the client's fault or the server's fault but I've got my test
> system running with netatalk-1.4b2+asun2.1.3_1 - just barely. I'm
> getting the usual permissions crap with directories. Compiling the
> asun2.1.4 versions is broken under FreeBSD. The pre series on source
> forge is broken (compiles okay) with 10 - unexpected shutdowns. I'm
> going to try and run 2 sets of servers - the pre series for 9- machines
> and the one that barely works for 10+ machines binding to different
> addresses to see if this is a solution.
>
> I think the general impression that I get is that nobody really has a
> clue what's at fault and as the jocks on source forge don't really care
> too much about anything other Linux, those of us who like to run stable
> setups are in for a long wait for a resolution.
>
> Does anybody know if Apple is interested in supporting anything other
> the Mac OS X Server or Appleshare IP? It would be nice to know what
> changes are going on in the client side, at least.
>
> Sorry if I sound pissed off, but I have tried to compile, or have
> compiled (into the wee hours) every version of netatalk that I could get
>
> my hands on and every one has a different set of problems. I think the
> frustration is starting to get to me!!
>
> Cheers,
> Jason.
>
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