Mk.558
Well-known member
Thank you for the feedback.
What I'll probably end up doing is making a separate subheading that points to your site/references this Netatalk 2.2 fork, along with the advantages of doing so. Netatalk 2.1.6 doesn't really do anything your fork doesn't already do, the work on it just makes it better, and it's not like Netatalk is a drag on system resources these days anyways.
Some time ago I found about the tinymacipgw project, and I liked it, but felt it was too limited. Some day I'll have to find out a limited GUI (I played with Linux mostly around 2010, and while I maintain it as a backup OS on all my systems, I really don't use it) system like Lubuntu was back in the day that ideally takes up less than 500MB but is otherwise fully functional and has the full Netatalk 2.2 + macipgw integration that I can run in a VM. Console-only VMs with very little extendability/no GUI tend to make my head hurt -- not to mention, I find it easier to pull up gedit or whatever and edit the .conf files rather than using vi or vim.
About your neat little tutorial:
A) Generally if it's Netatalk 2.1/2.2, anything all the way back to a 512K with System 3.3/Finder 5.4 using AppleShare WS 1.1 can connect to it see here. That's a 512Ke but a 512K will work the same
B) I was never really able to get 7.1 working with OT 1.3/AppleShare Client 3.7.4 to work with Tiger but maybe one day I'll buckle down again and try to figure out how to do it. Copying extensions over manually without using the Installer is a good way to get reliable system bombs
C) I've got a question -- in the Guide, I reference to make a temporary share in /media/ (it's referenced in the Guest client connection): my Linux techspeak is a bit weak. I don't think that's a good place to put a temporary share, and I honestly have no idea where you'd put a folder accessible by every user (think of sharing the Programs folder of your vintage mac's hard drive) on a *NIX box. I don't think that's a thing, most of the time you share a folder in the user home directory or something? I don't know. Put it in /var/? I asked this before like 10 years ago and nobody could give me a concrete answer
D) Lot of good stuff, nice job
reminder to self: 512K/512Ke to phonenet RXD/TXD wiring
What I'll probably end up doing is making a separate subheading that points to your site/references this Netatalk 2.2 fork, along with the advantages of doing so. Netatalk 2.1.6 doesn't really do anything your fork doesn't already do, the work on it just makes it better, and it's not like Netatalk is a drag on system resources these days anyways.
Some time ago I found about the tinymacipgw project, and I liked it, but felt it was too limited. Some day I'll have to find out a limited GUI (I played with Linux mostly around 2010, and while I maintain it as a backup OS on all my systems, I really don't use it) system like Lubuntu was back in the day that ideally takes up less than 500MB but is otherwise fully functional and has the full Netatalk 2.2 + macipgw integration that I can run in a VM. Console-only VMs with very little extendability/no GUI tend to make my head hurt -- not to mention, I find it easier to pull up gedit or whatever and edit the .conf files rather than using vi or vim.
About your neat little tutorial:
A) Generally if it's Netatalk 2.1/2.2, anything all the way back to a 512K with System 3.3/Finder 5.4 using AppleShare WS 1.1 can connect to it see here. That's a 512Ke but a 512K will work the same
B) I was never really able to get 7.1 working with OT 1.3/AppleShare Client 3.7.4 to work with Tiger but maybe one day I'll buckle down again and try to figure out how to do it. Copying extensions over manually without using the Installer is a good way to get reliable system bombs
C) I've got a question -- in the Guide, I reference to make a temporary share in /media/ (it's referenced in the Guest client connection): my Linux techspeak is a bit weak. I don't think that's a good place to put a temporary share, and I honestly have no idea where you'd put a folder accessible by every user (think of sharing the Programs folder of your vintage mac's hard drive) on a *NIX box. I don't think that's a thing, most of the time you share a folder in the user home directory or something? I don't know. Put it in /var/? I asked this before like 10 years ago and nobody could give me a concrete answer
D) Lot of good stuff, nice job
reminder to self: 512K/512Ke to phonenet RXD/TXD wiring
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