Networking between Ubuntu and MacOS X

[David]

On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 01:13:40AM +0100, John Levin wrote:
> 
> On 3 Apr 2005, at 23:49, David wrote:
> 
> >On Sun, Apr 03, 2005 at 12:05:42AM -0500, Eric Dunbar wrote:
> >>So, you installed netatalk via Synaptic or apt-get? IIRC Synaptic
> >>turned on atalkd for me and set it to startup on boot as well.
> >
> >Be careful with netatalk. That last time I looked apt-get was 
> >installing
> >version 1.64, which has serious problems with OS X. You need at least
> >version 2.
> >
> 
> I've just installed netatalk, and having trouble connecting OS X to 
> Ubuntu: it's refusing passwords that are 'too long.'
> 
> Do you have any references for netatalk's problems with OS X? I'd like 
> to look this stuff up.
> 


I'm not much help to you... I went to the netatalk site and followed the 
instructions to install from tar. Once I actually read the README 
properly, it went well enough. Because I've changed my work patterns, I 
don't fileserve between Linux and Mac anymore, so it's non-issue for me.

For some reason, there is no .deb for V.2 of netatalk. The real problem is 
that distros are continuing to package v.1.6.4 which only works with OS 9. 
What's worse is that there are no caveats.... you find out when it doesn't 
work, and then of course most people blame themselves for doing something 
wrong ;-)

V.1.6.4 does NOT work with OS X !