The alias problem is the only major issue that my employer has with
netatalk. They have asked me if it would be possible to get the database
support written into netatalk. The are willing to pay for it or hire
programmers to help. I felt it would be unwise to blindly go hacking at the
code without some kind of direction or guidance. I am not asking Adrian to
do the programming, just point me in the right direction. I really want
netatalk to be a great Appleshare file server option.
Is there any part of the changes that other programmers can work on to help
the process?
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From: a sun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Macs that won't mount *all* their filesystems at boot
> I hope the alias problem gets fixed someday
> [snip]
> My employer has offered, in the past, to FUND AND PROVIDE
> PROGRAMMERS to help fix this problem. But I received no
> response to the offer.
FREE help. How about it Adrian?
i've already said something about this. the code needed to get the
alias problem fixed has already been written. i made the decision that
the types of changes required to fix it and a host of other problems
were too substantial for my upcoming release. when we go to a database
lookup implementation, we'll need to have sundry utilities so that
samba and commandline utilities can fix up the database when
necessary.
however, i'm more than willing to accept patches that will show up in
the next development series. if you look in past emails, you'll see
that i have a list of things that would be good to work on. i suppose
i could send it out again. to date though, i've only gotten good
feedback on improved printer support.
in any case, i'll be making available a new pre-release patchset
soon. things are looking pretty good for an asun2.2.0 release in the
next two weeks. i decided to improve the filename mangling/codepage
support a bit, so it's been waiting on that. basically, i've extended
support so that you can declare certain characters illegal (with
notations for double-byte/single-byte distinctions) as well as map in
only one direction. that should improve interoperability with samba.
-a
