Looking for a mentor/adviser

[Eric Shubert]

Craig White wrote:
> On Sat, 2010-01-30 at 17:46 -0700, Eric Shubert wrote:
>> Kurt Granroth wrote:
>>> On 1/30/10 10:10 AM, Matt Graham wrote:
>>>> After a long battle with technology, Craig White wrote:
>>>> [snip]
>>>>> - Netatalk (Macintosh AFP server)
>>>> Really?  That package recently dropped off the Gentoo ebuilds list because
>>>> there wasn't that much demand for it and it's not really being maintained.
>>>> There just aren't as many MacOS 9 boxes out there as there used to be, after
>>>> all.
>>>>
>>> Not just MacOS 9... the modern OS X "File Sharing" uses AFP.  It's still 
>>> the default way to share OS X drives on Linux.
>> Funny that would come up. We just configured an ubuntu server with 
>> netatalk at the IF today. It works with Tiger and Leopard, but 10.5.6+ 
>> functionality is questionable.
> ----
> check the dns on the snow leopard system or better yet, connect via IP
> address instead of DNS resolution. I am seeing some strange behavior
> from snow leopard.
> 
> Craig

I wish we could, but I only have a Tiger system to test with. I don't 
think Don (whose server we worked on) has Snow Leopard yet either, just 
Leopard. :(

I was planning to upgrade the Tiger host to Snow Leopard in the near 
future. Do you think I should hold off on that? The host is a MacMini.

-- 
-Eric 'shubes'