DNS-323 and AFP

[Bill Bumface]

My DNS-323 decided to format the wrong drive, so I'm starting everything from scratch.

There ware some SMB performance issues with using it with OSX 10.5, so I've since tweaked the SMB but also want to impliment AFP on the NAS.

I got Bonjour working (used avahi) and AFP sort of working, but I can only connect as the guest (nobody). I'm using netatalk, I've tried enabling plain text passwords both sides, putting a plain text password in a .passwd file on the NAS /home/account folder. Nothing is working. It always says invalid username/password.

Where does AFP decide who has permissions? Is there a config file I can specifically add my username to?

[Bill Bumface]

You disappoint me CP.

I can't believe you guys call yourselves apple nerds.

When the going gets nerdy you all run away and play Angry Birds on your new iPads

[sclitheroe]

AFP is deprecated, do you really want to use that as your file sharing protocol? I would investigate NFS ahead of AFP, given the choice.

I really wish Apple would include a native iSCSI implementation. There are free versions out there, but it would be really nice to have native support that I know isn’t going to break if I upgrade OS X.

[Barnes]

Originally Posted by hulkrogan

You disappoint me CP.

I can't believe you guys call yourselves apple nerds.

When the going gets nerdy you all run away and play Angry Birds on your new iPads

The Apple-esque answer would be buy a fataing Drobo and plug it in.

[ZedMan]

Originally Posted by barnes

the apple-esque answer would be buy a fataing time capsule and plug it in.

fyp.

[Bill Bumface]

Originally Posted by sclitheroe

AFP is deprecated, do you really want to use that as your file sharing protocol? I would investigate NFS ahead of AFP, given the choice.

I really wish Apple would include a native iSCSI implementation. There are free versions out there, but it would be really nice to have native support that I know isn’t going to break if I upgrade OS X.

Is OS X support of NFS good? I was doing this for Timemachine purposes and thought that only AFP was full supported. For example, I could back up to timemachine using SMB, but if I nuked my laptop the only way you can see your image to restore from is if it's AFP.

[sclitheroe]

Originally Posted by hulkrogan

Is OS X support of NFS good? I was doing this for Timemachine purposes and thought that only AFP was full supported. For example, I could back up to timemachine using SMB, but if I nuked my laptop the only way you can see your image to restore from is if it's AFP.

Oh yeah...I was thinking of AFP over AppleTalk...AFP over TCP/IP is not deprecated, my bad.

[sclitheroe]

Did you enable plain text password support on the Mac? (not sure what you meant by both sides..)

Also, just for kicks, what happens if you create an identically named user account as your short account name on the Mac, on the NAS side with the same UID? Is that something you can set up on the NAS?

[Bill Bumface]

^Good thought, I'll try that. Thank you sir!