[cobalt-users] Re: AppleShare on RaQ3?

[Johan-Kristian Wold <jkwold@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I don't know if anyone else has answered this yet, but I've been away 
for a while, and haven't gotten tto he bottom of the heap. Anyway, 
just so that Alexander doesn't get impatient:

In cobalt-users digest, Vol 1 #796, Alexander Lohse wrote:
> <snip>Anyone ever tried to enable AppleShare via IP on the RaQ3?

Yup.

> I tried to install the netatalk & asun rpm but, it said "This package
> is already installed!".

It is.

> But the system is not available through IP connecting on the mac!
>
> What would I need to do to get that thing running

It seems to me like a problem with netatalk. The netatalk daemon 
doesn't properly announce its Appleshare/IP capability, so the mac 
defaults to the stone-age Appleshare...

What you need to do is to select appleshare in the chooser, and click 
the "server IP address", whereupon you can enter the proper adress. 
To save yourself this step in the future, you can either use "logon 
automatically" (not entirely foolproof), or make an alias of the 
volume(s) on your desktop, or in a pop-up folder.

If you are also using the box for PCs, you might want to fiddle 
around with /etc/atalk/AppleVolumes.system
This file maps pc file extensions to Macintosh filetype/creator 
codes. If you have an odd extension, or a file maps to the wrong app, 
this is the place to fix it.

As for speed, the NasRaq gives around 4 mb/sec over a 100Mbit net 
using AS/IP. This is certainly less than what an AppleShare/IP server 
or a Sun using Helios EtherShare will give you, and I'm not too 
impressed with the filesharing for windows speed either. Well, I 
guess that "you get what you pay for..."

A "feature" (tm) on must bear in mind, is that appleshare on the 
Cobalt renders usernames from the NT PDC lowercase only when 
connecting from a Mac, so that you will have different user names 
when connecting from a PC and a Mac. (If you're using upper case 
characters in the user names, that is).

To top it off - a slight gripe (one is never happy, unless one has 
something to complain about ;^) with regards to the list:
While quoting and sigs is ceratinly a minor issue, it is irritating, 
to say the least, when a poster has one line of new content, 30 lines 
of quoted content, 3 user sigs and 3 mailing list sigs. It makes for 
a very poor signal to noise ratio.

I haven't noticed any HTML posts with cryptic attachments lately, so 
it seems like the list admins must have gotten rid of 'em. In that 
case - Kudos to you :^)

Kind regards

Johan-Kr
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