Linux AppleTalk File Share mounting problems

[June Tate]

On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 09:40:16PM -0700, Craig White wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-08-31 at 21:10 -0700, June Tate wrote:
> 
> > Well, NFS and SMB mounts tend to go stale and die off while a Mac is
> > asleep. AFP mounts, however, have a sleep state built into the
> > protocol, so it's possible for them to stay mounted even though the
> > machine is asleep.
> > 
> > I've been having problems with SMB and NFS mounts not showing up as
> > connected when Microcosm wakes up, so I figured using AFP might solve
> > the problem with a bit more elegance.
> ----
> wow - I would have thought it to be the other way around. My NFS mounts
> are the most forgiving mounts I think that I have ever seen - though I
> do have to say that I haven't done NFS mounts with OSX

NFS on OSX is a bit of a pain, since you can't really "mount" them
from the command line and mount them from the Finder easily. They
don't survive sleep states very well -- sometimes it takes the
automounter a full minute to reestablish the connection.

> ----
> > 
> > > I'm not convinced that 2.0.3 handles some of the changes Apple made in
> > > Tiger - I think the release pre-dated the Tiger release.
> > 
> > Not sure what you're referring as "2.0.3" here. =o)
> ----
> netatalk current version is 2.0.3
> 
> http://netatalk.sourceforge.net/
> 
> I hope that you aren't using some old netatalk deb package like a 1.5.x
> or a 1.6.x

I'm using 2.0.2-3 -- latest in Debian Testing. =o)

-- 
June Tate * http://www.theonelab.com * june at theonelab.com
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