Looking for a mentor/adviser

[Eric Shubert]

Craig White wrote:
> 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.
> ----
> I have several clients running many Mac's (Leopard) and connecting to
> Netatalk and using it daily... no problemo

Do you have samba sharing any of the same data along with netatalk?

> 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

I can see where that'd be a bit perplexing.

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-Eric 'shubes'