[geeks] AFP tips requested

[velociraptor]

On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 8:35 PM, Phil Stracchino<alaric at metrocast.net> wrote:

>> I found netatalk to be much, much faster than SMB/CIFS (as in at least
>> an order of magnitude) and don't bother to run Samba anymore *at all*.
>> The only Windows box in the house is a VM under VBox, and it uses VBox
>> internal sharing to access the zfs file systems.
>
> Noted.  We'll have to see how it performs.  I don't expect Cymru to be
> using it heavily.  I'll look more at finishing up the netatalk
> configuration tomorrow.  It doesn't look like the config files are
> complex.  For all I know, it was actually working and I just didn't know
> how to tell OSX to connect to it.

No shares would be configured by default. The conf files are well
commented.  The URL I gave previously has the details on what options
to use for dealing with the "metadata" files that Macs create in
non-native file systems.

<command><k>
afp://server/share/path

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