Re: More fun with Apple IIs and LANs...

[menacechgo@aol.com (Marsha)]

salfter@salfter.ncc74656.dyndns.org (Scott Alfter) wrote in message news:<u096k6nccg9vf1@corp.supernews.com>...
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> I snagged a Cayman GatorBox CS off of eBay recently; 
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> Apparently there was some additional firmware for the GatorBox called
> GatorShare that translates NFS to AFP.  With this, it should be able to
> replace netatalk by taking an NFS share and translating it so that Macs
> (and, hopefully, Apple IIs as well) can see it with no additional software
> on their end.  Has anyone done any experimenting with GatorShare to
> determine if it could enable an Apple II to access an NFS server?  

(Testing done using Mandrake Linux 7.2, nfs-utils 0.3.1-0.6.x.1 Mac
8100, Apple IIgs sys 6.0.1, GatorShare 3.0.3x4)

Problems with Apple IIgs or Macintosh accessing GatorShared Linux NFS
server (in no particular order)
 
  Login name sent to NFS server is case sensitive

  GatorBox cannot directly access shadowed password files.
    Didn't work after pwunconv either. 
     (Linux's encryption may be different than Sun/UNIX)
    Neither setting up NIS/yp or pcnfsd systems seemed to help.
  Need to setup a separate "password" file on the NFS server with a
  blank/no password.
  (have to configure the GatorBox to point to the new file)

Problems with specifically Apple IIgs accessing GatorShared NFS
servers

User needs a patched AppleShare CDev for the GatorBox's AFP 1.1 server
GatorBox's implementation of AppleSingle/Appledouble doesn't preserve 
Apple II file information.(GatorShare assumes Macintosh and Finder
Info)

Final result...
The best Apple IIgs - GatorBox - Linux support is via netatalk
Versions 1.4b2+asun2.1.3 or lower. Later versions don't save the
resource file length unless patched/recompiled.
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=476082&group_id=8642&atid=108642