Subject: Re: [netatalk-admins] a cold wind bloweth
From: Paul R. Potts (potts@umich.edu)
Date: Mon Jun 07 1999 - 14:20:51 EDT
They are talking about netatalk on macintouch in the context of setting up
PCs as servers for mac networks
I have been using it but have not really seen these troubles... would anyone
like to address them? Maybe a response could be added to the discussion on
macintouch?
Are these issues valid, or do they pertain to older versions, or are they
known bugs, or what?
Thanks for any info,
Paul
Quote from netatalk discussion board follows:
The free program for AppleTalk with LINUX (NETATALK) is 6 years old, and
doesn't support everything it should. The biggest problems we've found are:
1) aliases don't work to a LINUX share. This means having to go through the
network browser, or chooser every time you want to get to a folder. It's a
big frustration thing. 2) printing images (esp. from Photoshop) sometimes
hangs the printer queue and sometimes just drops that printing job. 3) files
with illegal names (ie. >32 character or having illegal characters) just
don't show up. This is a problem because when you copy whole folders you can
miss files without even know it. 4) We've had lots of problems where files
put on the LINUX shares by PCs are "in use" when Mac users try to get them,
which makes us resort to Zip drives to get files across the room.
-- "ain't you ever seen a disembodied soul before? ain't you ever seen a soul seeking incarnation?" - Robyn Hitchcock Paul R. Potts - Technical Group Leader - Health Media Research Lab Comprehensive Cancer Center - University of Michigan Medical Center potts@umich.edu - 734.936.0096
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