Hi all, Looking for a "best practices" way to share out to both Mac and PC easily. I know Windoze enables the same sharepoint for both the mac and pc shares and there don't seem to be any real "problems" by doing that. However I work in an environment which forces us to utilize Win9x through XP as well as OS 9 through 10.x on the mac side. I need a user friendly way to use AFP over IP as well as SMB for the windows users. Anyone done this in a production environment? I will definitely be backing up this machine on a daily basis, just need to know if Samba and Netatalk will work together. Thanks in advance for Ideas/Comments. Kevan
Take a look at Baltra: http://www.baltra.org/ The idea behind Baltra is to patch up Netatalk so that it accesses and stores files on the server in the standard Apple OS-X way instead of the funky old Netatalk method (e.g. .AppleDouble directories). Baltra doesn't change the way Netatalk talks to clients, it just tweaks some details on how the files are saved on the server (such as UTF-8 names, AppleDouble v2 files with only FinderInfo and ResourceFork sections, ._ files instead of .AppleDouble directories, etc.). That way, you can access the files from an OS-X Mac via NFS, SMB, direct access, etc. while still keeping the entire file (including resource forks) intact. It also prevents having stale resource forks or multiple resource forks for a file littering the server and causing possible corruption or other errors. Lastly, this allows you to migrate away from Netatalk and to a single standard (e.g. SMB) as you reduce the number of OS-9 Macs on your network. Good luck! Phil Kevan Carbaugh wrote:>Hi all, > >Looking for a "best practices" way to share out to both Mac and PC easily. >I know Windoze enables the same sharepoint for both the mac and pc shares >and there don't seem to be any real "problems" by doing that. However I >work in an environment which forces us to utilize Win9x through XP as well >as OS 9 through 10.x on the mac side. I need a user friendly way to use AFP >over IP as well as SMB for the windows users. Anyone done this in a >production environment? I will definitely be backing up this machine on a >daily basis, just need to know if Samba and Netatalk will work together. > >Thanks in advance for Ideas/Comments. > >Kevan > >
Hi, i did a setup with smb and netatalk 3 years ago, it worked very nice for 100 Users using macs and pcs, the only thing which was a little bit ugly ,was giving permissions to groups on shares because i always had to create them in samba and netatalk, so this was twice work everytime we had new shares or groups, but it worked.Since then i dont followed netatalk but perhaps netatalk has now pam or ldap features, which could match the admin of both systems, i would be very interested if sombody has some news about that Best Regards ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kevan Carbaugh" <kcarbaugh@rhpa.org> To: <Samba@lists.samba.org> Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2003 7:59 PM Subject: [Samba] Netatalk and Samba??? Hi all, Looking for a "best practices" way to share out to both Mac and PC easily. I know Windoze enables the same sharepoint for both the mac and pc shares and there don't seem to be any real "problems" by doing that. However I work in an environment which forces us to utilize Win9x through XP as well as OS 9 through 10.x on the mac side. I need a user friendly way to use AFP over IP as well as SMB for the windows users. Anyone done this in a production environment? I will definitely be backing up this machine on a daily basis, just need to know if Samba and Netatalk will work together. Thanks in advance for Ideas/Comments. Kevan -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba