Re: guide to setting up netatalk on Ubuntu, with Apple II netboot

[Ivan X <ivanxqz@yahoo.com>]

Here's my memory of AppleTalk in Mac OS X, which might very well be wrong
both due to hazy memory and a limited understanding of AppleTalk; please
correct what I've got wrong.

AFP 3.0 was introduced in Mac OS X, with TCP/IP as the primary transport
mechanism, but AppleTalk still supported. Through 10.3.9, Mac OS X had more
or less bidirectional compatibility with AFP 2.x clients (Mac OS X 7.5.3, if
not older, through 9.2.2).

10.4 eliminated the client -- you can't connect to an AppleTalk-based
server. An AppleTalk-based client can still connect, but once machine
discovery is complete, the two computers communicate via TCP/IP, which the
AppleTalk packets are encapsulated within. (This might be true for earlier
OS X versions too, I can't remember.)

10.5 retained AppleTalk only for printing; no file sharing in either
direction.

10.6 excised the last vestiges of AppleTalk. In fact, you can't even connect
to a 10.6 server from an AFP 2.x client via TCP/IP, which mystified me --
one explanation I found was that when an AFP 2.x client connects, even via
TCP/IP, it's still encapsulated AppleTalk, which Snow Leopard wants nothing
to do with.

I'll try the netatalk compile on a few different versions of OS X. My guess
is that whatever AppleTalk headers or libraries or whatever it is that
netatalk is looking for aren't in the same place or available in the same
way.


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