[OmniOS-discuss] Best way to share files with Mac?

Stephan Budach stephan.budach at jvm.de
Fri Nov 24 17:39:35 UTC 2017


Hi Geoff,

----- Ursprüngliche Mail -----
> Von: "Geoff Nordli" <geoffn at gnaa.net>
> An: "Stephan Budach" <stephan.budach at jvm.de>
> CC: "omnios-discuss" <omnios-discuss at lists.omniti.com>
> Gesendet: Freitag, 24. November 2017 18:06:52
> Betreff: Re: [OmniOS-discuss] Best way to share files with Mac?
> 
> 
> 
> On 2017-11-23 10:57 PM, Stephan Budach wrote:
> > Hi Geoff,
> >
> > ----- Ursprüngliche Mail -----
> >> Von: "Geoff Nordli" <geoffn at gnaa.net>
> >> An: "omnios-discuss" <omnios-discuss at lists.omniti.com>
> >> Gesendet: Freitag, 24. November 2017 03:56:01
> >> Betreff: [OmniOS-discuss] Best way to share files with Mac?
> >>
> >> Hi.
> >>
> >> I have to support a few mac machines connecting to a few file
> >> shares
> >> running Omnios.
> >>
> >> They are reporting problems with the speed when using the
> >> "finder".
> >>
> >> I see there is a netatalk package I can download and compile off
> >> of
> >> sourceforge, which looks fairly current.
> >>
> >> Any suggestions on the best way forward to support Mac machines?
> >>
> >> thanks,
> >>
> >> Geoff
> >>
> > well, the current Netatalk 3.1.x packages will of course get you
> > Mac connectivity, but you should probably go with SMB instead, as
> > no one actually knows, when Apple will pull AFP from macOS. I know
> > that AFP/Netatalk is very fast - we have been using it on
> > Solaris11 for a long time now, but it is in no way future-proof.
> >
> > I think it would make more sense to fix the speed issues, you're
> > seeing when using SMB. What speed issues are you experiencing?
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Stephan
> 
> Hello Stephan.
> 
> I am not 100% sure exactly what the issues are with the finder.  I
> wanted to make sure I was focusing on the right protocol first.
> 
> Manuel suggests going with Samba, which I have been looking at for a
> couple of years, but nothing really made me want to put the effort
> into it.
> 
> thanks!!
> Geoff

this is, what I would suggest as well. Actually, we just started an internal project to finally move from AFP to SMB. Although I know, that AFP beats the pants off of SMB, AFP will go away and it's better to switch asap and in your case, not get tainted by AFP's speed in the first place…

Better focus on what bothers you when using SMB and getting that sorted out.

Cheers,
Stephan
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