[plug] Mac OSX

Scott Middleton scott at linuxit.com.au
Tue Feb 10 13:29:37 WST 2004


Thanks Craig and James.
I guess the best idea is to set up all of them maybe with multiple
shares and be prepared to spend time setting them up. 

On Tue, 2004-02-10 at 12:25, James Devenish wrote:
> In message <20040210041345.GA1793 at mail.guild.uwa.edu.au>
> on Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 12:13:45PM +0800, James Devenish wrote:
> > (should basically autoconfigure itself,
> 
> One word of caution: depending on circumstances, you may find that it
> autoconfigures itself when you don't want it to. If this happens, you
> might lose your custom configuration. So: back up. It is possible to
> identify situations in which adverse autoconfiguration will occur, and
> even to prevent them, but if you aren't familiar with the pecularities
> of Apple autoconfiguration, it's safest to methodically back up before
> restarting the daemons.
> 
> In other words: when I compile netatalk myself and use it in most
> environments, it works like a dream and is easy to use: highly
> recommended. However, there are a bunch of 'ifs' and 'buts' that might
> or might not crop up when are setting it up for the first time (and if
> your AppleTalk environment changes).
> 
> PS. Craig Ringer was recently looking at netatalk for Linux in his
> environment, and may be able to offer more advice about 'getting it
> going' than I can.
> 
> 
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