Re: Looking for a mentor/adviser

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Author: Craig White
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To: Main PLUG discussion list
Subject: Re: Looking for a mentor/adviser
On Sun, 2010-01-31 at 18:42 -0700, Eric Shubert wrote:
> 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.

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I have several clients running many Mac's (Leopard) and connecting to
Netatalk and using it daily... no problemo

Snow Leopard seems to query multiple DNS servers via a round robin style
rather than starting with the first in the list which caused me a
headache.

Craig


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