On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 02:16:46AM -1000, Warren Togami wrote:
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
Nice
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.
The kernel module deals with localtalk and ethertalk link layers primarily.
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.
Addison Wesley: Inside Appletalk
It doesnt cover the latest extensions but it covers the rest (for my sins I was involved in the netatalk port to Linux)
Alan