At 23:41 Uhr -0700 30.05.2000, Harry Zink/Netatalk List wrote:
>Apple's ASIP (of course) as well as Windows NT have no problems. Novell's
>Netware (which is genuine crap) and netatalk don't handle alias' reliably.
Netware was one of the fastest AppleTalk only Servers (as ASIP wasn't born). Okay, one
needed a PC to do comfy administration but it was okay and there may be situations in
which it fulfills still ones needs.
>My question, to those of you that DO use netatalk in production environments
>- how do you do it? How do you deal with the alias issue, and what
>work-arounds have you found for your users (no, telling them they can't use
>alias' is NOT an answer....)
Hm, I for myself simply won't (or seldom will) use aliases. Neither on the server nor
on my local disks. Users at work do it evenly. Perhaps germans don't like aliases ;-)
>I know the problem hs to do with persistent IDs, but why can Win NT handle
>it, and what's the issue with netatalk not being able to?
I think it's a question how to implement these in a manner so access to an
DID-overview is fast and reliable - and nice to handle from within unix. And how do
you handle a suddently missing or added directory (from within samba or unix)?
Adrian has some efforts done.
:wq! PoC
