Re: [cobalt-users] [NEW] AppleShare updates for Qube3]

[Rickard Osser <ricky@xxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 2002-08-22 at 05:50, Malcolm McLeary wrote:
Hi Malcolm,
> Hi Rickard,
> 
> on 21/8/02 7:10 PM, Rickard Osser wrote:
> 
> > I just wanted to inform you on our latest package for the Qube3.
> > This package updates Netatalk to the latest version which gives you
> > compatibility with MacOS X clients. It also enables filename
> > compatibility with windows/samba which means Western European Characters
> > outside of A-Z, a-z and 0-9 will be correctly translated between Macs
> > and Windows machines.
> 
> Does this package change anything else?
> 
> 1.  Netatalk on the Qube2 used to allow "/" in filenames.  Netatalk of the
> Qube3 does not.
This is not valid anymore as UFS and other filesystems uses "/" as a 
directory delimiter instead of the ":" Apple used in HFS and MFS.
 
> 2.  Adding new groups or doing almost anything to printers on a Qube3 shuts
> down all Appleshare facilites (i.e. disconnects users).
This is a misstake from Cobalt made in the UI... This is unfortunately
ouotside of our software upgrades scope as we haven't patched the UI and
it's underlying scripts. It's easy to adapt the script to only restart the PAPD daemon
but it wasn't in our plan for this update.
 
> These two issues are a real pain with the installed version.
> 
> What changed wrt MacOS X?  I use MacOS X with my current Qube3 configuration
> and have not experienced any problems.  Should I expect to?
Well, actually it's double, if you use MacOS X 10.1.5 then you really
shouldn't have any problems as Apple updated the client to behave
correctly but with some versions of Netatalk you've had trouble with
compatibility between MacOS X and the server-software... Disconnects,
error-messages while saving and other stuff...

Best regards,

Rickard Osser
Manager
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