EtherWave and netatalk (was: Farallon EtherWave question)

[Ivan X <ivanxqz@yahoo.com>]

On 10/8/10 11:54 AM, in article C8D4A8E2.132FB%hughhood@earthlink.net, "Hugh
Hood" <hughhood@earthlink.net> wrote:

> Now, if I could only put them to good use. <grin>

I don't think true AFP-over-AppleTalk is coming to Mac OS X any time soon,
but I have a premade virtual machine for VirtualBox (which is free) just
about ready, so that's the next best thing. It's easy to get files in and
out of the VM, too, because you can connect to the shared volume from the
host Mac (or PC) as well as the networked Apple II. Or, when the VM is shut
down (and if you have no snapshots), you can mount the actual virtual HD
file as a drive on your Mac or PC with the appropriate utility. I'll try to
post it by Monday.

As far as Netatalk working natively with AppleTalk on OS X, I only see the
following possibilities, all of which are above my pay grade:

- someone figures out how to get Netatalk to operate with Darwin's AppleTalk
stack in 10.5 and below, with the significant con that it will never work in
10.6+

- someone writes a new AppleTalk stack, or figures out how to adapt the one
in the Darwin source, or adapt the one in Netatalk 1.6 (circa 1999),
integrated into modern Netatalk, and gets that to run fully under modern Mac
OS X

The latter option would be sweet as it would mean Netatalk could potentially
serve to Apple II clients from, say, an iOS server. Both of the above are
well beyond my skeelz and time, which I'd rather put to other purposes like
turning a WD NAS into an A2 boot server.

On a totally unrelated note, I'm sure I'm the first person in at least a
decade to try the "timelord" daemon for netatalk, which is an optional
compile. When running, it delivers the time via AppleTalk to a Mac OS
6/7/8/9 machine running a Chooser extension called "Tardis". Or at least it
is supposed to. Given the dead clock batteries in my various Macs, this
could actually be useful! And maybe I could write an Apple II client! But it
doesn't actually work. It seems like it should, as the log shows the request
from Tardis, but the time doesn't get set. (If I run the Mac OS version of
the Timelord server on another Mac, that does work though.) Being that this
is the least important thing one could possibly do with the netatalk
package, I think I will give it a rest until I exhaust every other thing I
want to explore about it. But I had to check it out.