Re: natalk and Mac OS X


Subject: Re: natalk and Mac OS X
From: Peter Duchateau (peter@duo.be)
Date: Fri Jun 29 2001 - 04:55:48 EDT


We found a solution for this problem on sourceforge.

Mac OS X clients require a loginmessage from the server.

> From: <boris@alert.infoplease.com>
> Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2001 14:03:41 -0400
> To: Stanton Schell <stanton@livsform.com>, Vic Landi
> <vic@mail.jamesltaylor.com>, Peter Duchateau <peter@duo.be>
> Subject: Re: natalk and Mac OS X
>
>
> In case you didn't see it, here's my earlier message on getting OS X
> to work with netatalk.
>
> Bng
>
> Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2001 16:23:06 -0400
> To: Brian Hendrickson <brian@megapump.com>
> Cc: "Pedro Miguel F. Custodio" <pecus@netvisao.pt>, netatalk-admins@umich.edu
> Resent-From: netatalk-admins@umich.edu
> From: <boris@alert.infoplease.com>
> Subject: Re: MacOS X vs Linux HELP.
>
>>>>>> Brian Hendrickson writes:
> BH> I'm sure the developers are sorting all of this out right now for the
> BH> next release, but if anybody knows how to configure netatalk for Mac OS X,
> BH> please post to the list, thanks!
>
> There are some useful discussions of this issue on the OS X discussion
> boards at apple.com. For example, see this thread:
> http://discussions.info.apple.com/WebX?13@@.eedb03f/8
> (registration required).
>
> The bottom line is that there is one, and apparently only one, version
> of netatalk that works with Mac OS X right now:
> ftp://ftp.cobaltnet.com/pub/users/asun/testing/pre-asun2.1.4-37b.tar.gz
> which is version netatalk-1.4b2+asun2.1.4-pre37b.
>
> Some people additionally suggest adding -DUSE_FLOCK_LOCKS to the compile
> flags.
>
> Thanks to Richard Eisenman for figuring this out!
>
> No guarantees, but I'm using this combination and it is working pretty
> well. I do hope someone can figure out what this version does
> differently, and patch the newer versions to work with OS X too.
>
> Bng
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