Subject: Re: [netatalk-admins] netatalk on Solaris 7?
From: Thomas Tornblom (Thomas.Tornblom@Hax.SE)
Date: Mon Feb 08 1999 - 16:56:00 EST
>
> We have been running netatalk on linux happily for the last 8 months.
> We are now changing directions with the server that is running
> netatalk - going from a linux intel server to a brand new Sun E3500
> running Solaris 7.
>
> Are there any gotchas with netatalk on Solaris that are going to bite
> me? I'm particularly interested in whether netatalk on Solaris will
> honor access control lists (acls). I understand Solaris has this
> feature and I can think of several situations in which I could find
> using these useful, but only if netatalk will work with them.
>
AFAIK there is no 64-bit netatalk yet, although Wes mentioned that the latest
snapshot (990130) might work.
The UE-3500 will by default boot a 64-bit kernel, and it requires *all* drivers
and kernel modules to be 64-bit.
You can force the machine to boot a 32-bit kernel if you need to run old 32-bit
drivers and don't care about running 64-bit apps.
To boot the 32 bit kernel set "boot-file" to "kernel/unix" in the OBP or with
"eeprom".
I have not followed the development of netatalk lately to have any idea about
the support for ACL:s.
Btw, I run the now ancient 971007 snapshot of netatalk on my ss10 (32-bit only)
with Solaris 7. I built it on 2.6 (or was it 2.5.1?).
I haven't come around to test any of the newer versions. I guess I should be
giving a suns version a try as my new G3-mac could benefit from running AFP over
IP. I feel there is just too many versions coming out and I have better ways of
spending my time than trying to catch up with every patch.
Thomas
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