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    Question Netatalk question

    Hello,

    I would like to build a 10.04 ubuntu file server with netatalk.
    I was looking for the best strategy but I'm not sure.
    Last netatalk version is 2.1.3 and I found this.

    http://plus-alpha-space.cocolog-nift...-1004neta.html

    Is the link above safe or should I trust doing

    sudo apt-get install netatalk

    Thanks,

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    Re: Netatalk question

    Hi johan.alfa,

    the

    sudo apt-get install netatalk

    did the job for me some month ago. But the whole network traffic slowed down enormous. I did not solved this problem never. That's why I dicided to disable netatalk again...

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    Re: Netatalk question

    Quote Originally Posted by Fraaik View Post
    Hi johan.alfa,

    But the whole network traffic slowed down enormous. I did not solved this problem never. That's why I dicided to disable netatalk again...
    Hello Fraaik

    How did you experience the slow down?
    Was it all network traffic on all computers or just the server?
    Did you measure it?

    Regards,

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    Re: Netatalk question

    Are you installing this for Macintosh use?
    Because SAMBA will work, from your MAC finder window you can access SAMBA shares like this

    smb://192.168.1.1

    Where 192.168.1.1 is the IP address of your SAMBA server.

    I too experience slowness with netatalk, its all about SAMBA.

    -Kev

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    Re: Netatalk question

    Quote Originally Posted by kevinthecomputerguy View Post
    Are you installing this for Macintosh use?
    I too experience slowness with netatalk, its all about SAMBA.

    -Kev
    Hello,

    Yes this would be for Mac OSX users.
    Strange you mention also slowness because I read so many comments about afp being so much faster then samba.

    Regards,

    Johan

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    Re: Netatalk question

    Hello,

    to give you an idea what i mean with "slowing down": to copy a 1MB file from one mac to an other takes about 1 minute! All other net traffic runed at normal speed. After disabling netatalk mac users in our LAN where happy again.

    Our samba server can be connected by "servername" in the finders lookup field too (OS X).

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    Re: Netatalk question

    I've been using Samba for the past couple months and it has been great. You can have it so that those "shared" folders always stay in the finder as well too which is nice.

    I will say I never tried netatalk as I have window machines on the network too, and using Samba made it more convenient.

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    Re: Netatalk question

    I am considering using netatalk for the Time Machine purpose. Did any of you guys do this? This would work in combination with Avahi.

    Also when you experience slowness, is that an the 2.1.3?
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