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

[Rickard Osser <ricky@xxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 2002-08-23 at 00:28, Malcolm McLeary wrote:
Hi Malcolm,
> 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?
I suppose those writing Netatalk stopped supporting "/" about the same
time the introduced filename-translation (which is what we turn on in
our package) as "/" isn't valid in iso-8859-1 and in Windows-850...
> 
> >> 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?
No, we're not in anyway connected to Cobalt except for the fact that I
got the 77th manufactured Qube1 shipped to me (first to Europe) back in
March 98... We were also the first Cobalt distributor in Europe.
> 
> >> 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.
Well, I noticed my G4 behaves quite well against an older Netatalk
running on a Mandrake 8.0 serever now, it diidn't 4 months ago. Well, I
get an error while saving an inDesign file to the server but it works...

With our Qube3 package the error message should be gone. BTW, I'm going
to update the Mandrake server tomorrow! :)

Best regards,

Rickard Osser
Manager
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