Samba And Netatalk - Is There A Better Solution?

Posted by Cliff on Monday January 29, 2001 @05:45PM from the looking-for-other-options dept.

Traverser asks: "I'm looking for a solution that allows Windows and Apple users to share a file store. Samba works great for the Windows systems. Netatalk works great for the Apple users. But each solution has its own style of file locking on the server: which means that if the same file were opened under Netatalk and Samba at the same time, there is a chance the file would become corrupt and unusable. Putting Dave on the Macintosh provided further layers of troubles. The WindowsNT AppleTalk driver doesn't seem to like Netatalk. WebDAV seems like a good alternative, except the tools are not mature enough on the Macintosh side to put in a production enviorment. NFS seems like a better solution, except the price per client suggests moving towards a commercial solution. Novell has moved support of the Netware Macintosh client to ProSoft Engineering. The current Novell client is still buggy and there is no visible development for a new client. I hate to say it but I'm back to the Microsoft solution. I really hope I'm missing something..."

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AFS by jfunk · 2001-01-29 13:40 · Score: 4

AFS + Netatalk is used in many places. You can compile Netatalk with AFS support.

I haven't tried it but it is described here.

There are also AFS clients for Windows, and Samba is supposedly "AFS-Aware."

It's worth a shot.