Re: AppleShare (was: Another ZipGSX Mod Success!)

[scott@alfter.DIESPAMMERSDIE.us (Scott Alfter)]

In article <qY-dnfK8MYpwSpHanZ2dnUVZ_veinZ2d@giganews.com>,
Steven Hirsch  <snhirsch@gmail.com> wrote:
>Scott Alfter wrote:
>> I am using the "LinuxShare" NDA to connect to the server, as there's some
>> case-sensitivity issue (IIRC) that keeps the AppleShare NDA from talking to
>> netatalk.  Maybe netatalk can be patched to work with the AppleShare NDA; I
>> think I had a patched netatalk working with it a few years ago.  (At this
>> point, it's nice to just be able to "emerge netatalk" and not have to screw
>> with things too much on the server side. :-) )
>
>Where did you get the "LinuxShare" NDA?  Is that something Marsha Jackson did? 

Yes...don't know if it's on any of the archive sites.

>  I don't think I needed to do anything special on the client end to get it 
>talking with netatalk.  That said, Ubuntu (and perhaps others) are 
>distributing a new netatalk version that present some issues for A2 
>connectivity.  I uploaded a patch and some complete debs to the "usual place" 
>(e-mail privately for specifics).  From memory, they default to not building 
>'randnum' auth support.  Also, somewhere along the line they made a change 
>that breaks propagation of A2 file timestamps.  Everything copied in either 
>direction gets the current time.  You may be able to work around the first one 
>with a new connection NDA, but the second one definitely requires a patch 
>(one-liner, I believe) to afpd.

I'm using whatever version Gentoo has marked as stable for AMD64.  From what
else I've seen on the topic, the free-software zealots who run some Linux
distros (thinking mainly of Debian and Ubuntu) insisted on removing some
functionality from netatalk.  Gentoo doesn't enforce that kind of
ideological purity (and it's a source-based distro, so there are no
distribution issues for them anyway).

That said, it might not be a bad idea for me to look into that patch and see
if it does something the current codebase doesn't.  I've not noticed
timestamp problems, but then I haven't really looked for them either.

>> Since the GatorBox is supposed to be able to translate from NFS to AFP, I
>> might give that a shot next...but that's starting to drift off-topic.
>
>I didn't realize that!  Let us know how that goes?

It takes optional firmware that might not have come with your GatorBox, as
it was an extra-cost option.  A while back, Cayman had it up for free
download.  Netopia (which bought Cayman) no longer has it available, but I
have all of the files here:

http://alfter.us/files/gatorbox/

GatorShare is the version that's supposed to handle the NFS-to-AFP
translation.  It also includes the functionality of GatorPrint (print to LPR
servers) and the basic GatorSystem (which just bridges between LocalTalk and
Ethernet and provides MacIP service).

(Was that enough CamelCase for everybody? :-) )

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