Xose Vazquez Perez wrote:
no big differece from latest report of last month:
package latest rawhide
fetchmail 6.2.5 6.2.0 freetype 2.1.7 2.1.4 gettext 0.13.1 0.12.1 gkrellm 2.1.24 2.1.21 gnumeric 1.2.4 1.2.1 groff 1.19 1.18.1 jfsutils 1.1.4 1.1.3 ImageMagick 5.5.7-15 5.5.6 less 381 378 lilo 22.5.8 21.4.4 lvm* 1.0.8 1.0.3 man 1.5m2 1.5k openssh 3.7.1p2 3.6.1p2 openssl 0.9.7c 0.9.7a parted 1.6.6 1.6.3 squirrelmail 1.4.2 1.4.0 tcpdump 3.8.1 3.7.2 util-linux 2.12 2.11y
Please add netatalk to this list. Rawhide has 1.5.5-9, but latest is 1.6.x. 1.6.x implements the latest version of the AFP over TCP/IP protocol that MacOS X talks natively. It allows features like disconnect & automatic reconnect. Otherwise BAD THINGS happen to Mac clients when they disconnect & reconnect.
netatalk 1.6.x is ahead of both Microsoft and Novell's AFP over TCP/IP support. I had been using it at a school here for months and it works quite well.
Unfortuately the netatalk related kernel module has been added to kernel-unsupported last I checked, so does this mean that netatalk is set for deprecation? Contrary to what many non-Mac people think, AFP is NOT that weird old AppleTalk that didn't use TCP/IP. It is a modern protocol now that works quite well for Macs. In my experience, with the exception of AFP routing [1], netatalk is much easier to manage than Samba, and with far fewer problems.
Warren
[1] netatalk works OUT OF THE BOX for most people with full capability... unless you have multiple interfaces that you want it to talk on. Then it is extremely difficult to figure out because of its extremely poor documentation, and the fact that I know nothing about the AFP protocol. Anyhow...