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

[Malcolm McLeary <mmcleary@xxxxxxx>]

Hi Rickard,

on 23/8/02 12:01 AM, Rickard Osser wrote:

>> 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.

I don't use UFS on my MacOS X machine, but MacOS X still allows me to use
"/" in filenames on its HFS+ formatted disk.

Did Netatalk stop supporting "/" or is it a configuration issue?

>> 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.

Ok.  Any idea if Sun Cobalt have this issue listed as a known bug and hence
plan to fix it?

>> 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...

Ah ... I'm a late adopter of MacOS X ... installed from CD and then updated
10.1.5.  Unfortunately not late enough to qualify for a FREE upgrade to
10.2.

Cheers,  Malcolm

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