ProDOS, OS X and Netatalk

[Hugh Hood <hughhood@earthlink.net>]

Fellas,

I've been toying with installing Netatalk on an OS X 10.4.11 (Tiger) Machine
to serve as a file server for several of my Apple IIGS machines.

Netatalk (2.0.5) is available from Macports, so installation shouldn't be
too bad.

Netatalk  will handle the AFP 2.2 that the IIGS uses. Moreover, thanks to
Steven Hirsch's efforts, Netatalk supports ProDOS and Apple II clients.

I'll hook this up with a Farallon Localtalk to Ethertalk device and give it
a go. 

I had done this same thing a couple of years ago on an OS X 10.3 (Panther)
setup using OS X's built-in AppleTalk file sharing, but ran into the same
issue as Roger Johnstone (and others) reported many years ago in this
newsgroup, that being:


> The bigger problem is that Apple 'repurposed' a flag originally used for
> storing ProDOS files on a Mac volume. As a result while the IIGS can
> read files fine from the Mac it can't write any files to it. [without
>  receiving an error message, that is]


My question: 

Has anyone here used Netatalk on an OS X machine and sucessfully written
files from the IIGS to the Mac? Also, are file attributes (Type/Creator)
preserved?

Thanks.

If no one has done this, I suppose I'll give it a try in the next month or
so and report back.

I know the Linux guys report Netatalk works great with the IIGS, but what
obout you OS X guys?

Hugh Hood