[geeks] AFP tips requested

[Joshua Boyd]

On Tue, Jun 09, 2009 at 03:49:22PM -0400, Phil Stracchino wrote:
> I have, as previously discussed, a Solaris 10 box which is our primary
> NAS box.  My wife just got given a "windtunnel" dual-G4 Power Mac, now
> running leopard (10.5.7 specifically).  Obviously, she'd like to be able
> to access the server.
> 
> I seem to recall from prior discussions that getting nfs to work on an
> OSX client is ... challenging.  So, I've installed netatalk on the server.

I'm only using 10.4, but I've had no trouble making OSX machines use NFS
served by Solaris 10/ZFS machines.
 
OSX is also happy to use CIFS, and Solaris will serve CIFS, although I
haven't tried that.