Re: file sharing between ubuntu and leopard

On 2008-02-26, Wolfgang Draxinger <wdraxinger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

It's all on the Linux side, and I don't see a sane reason, why
one should use a Microsoft propritary protocol to connect
systems that are both not Microsoft.

Well, I use NFS. :) But many organizations will already have a working
Samba server, so to install another sharing protocol to share with OS X
will seem silly compared to simply mounting the Samba share.

NFS is another option, but getting Netatalk to work is IMHO
simpler (and NFS is simple enough already). Also Netatalk allows
to configure quite sophisticated authentication methods,
something that NFS doesn't have.

True, though NFSv4 is supposed to. (I don't know any non-devel NFSv4
implementations for linux.) But not all networks need those
authentication methods, and if they do, and already have Samba working,
then they likely have everything they need.

And, as far as I know, netatalk is currently unmaintained,
though there may be more recent versions floating around
somewhere.

If it works, why not use it?

If there's a bug, who will fix it? I know I couldn't. This is probably
the biggest drawback to netatalk. The other is, of course, that it only
supports AFP, and thus only OS X clients. If all you have is OS X
clients, great! If not, I'd prefer not to introduce yet another
filesharing protocol to my network. (As it is, IRL I support Samba and
NFS, so the minor advantages netatalk provides don't outweigh the extra
sysadmin effort and complexity it would introduce.)

--keith


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