[nycbug-talk] Noob networking question

Brad Schonhorst bschonhorst at gmail.com
Fri Jul 21 12:13:43 EDT 2006


On 7/21/06, Charles Sprickman <spork at bway.net> wrote:
> On Fri, 21 Jul 2006, Brad Schonhorst wrote:
>
> >>> If your macs are running 10.4 there is no reason to use appletalk.  i
> >>> would suggest you disable it.  Bonjour is apple's 'replacement' for
> >>> apple talk for zeroconf networking (finding that lost network
> >>> printer.)  Both Bonjour and AFP are using TCP/IP at this point making
> >>> appletalk severely outdated.
> >>>
> >> Hi Brad,
> >>
> >> Are you suggesting nfs on the FreeBSD shared server and Bonjour on the
> >> clients ?  Not having looked at Bonjour at all, lets just say the name
> >> doesn't inspire much confidence ... :)
> >>
> >
> > I just re-read your original post and it looks like you are using
> > atalk for file sharing right?  Your right, Bonjour probably isn't the
> > best solution for that situation.  Have you tried just using NFS.  So
> > NFS on server, NFS on client?  These days, mac's can almost be thought
> > of as unix boxes. You wouldn't use atalk to connect 2 freebsd machines
> > right?
>
> Just to be clear, Bonjour/Rendezvous is simply for autodiscovering hosts
> and the services on them.  Some of those services may include file sharing
> services...
>
> AppleTalk file sharing is really the preferred way to be working here.
> Keep in mind that this does not mean using AFP over AppleTalk.  AFP also
> runs over TCP, and that's what current OS-X uses by default.
>
> AppleTalk File Sharing != AppleTalk network protocol.
>

Hey Charles, could you clarify this a bit?  What protocol does
AppleTalk File Sharing use?


> A good site that deals with this sort of thing is http://afp548.com/
>
> Just wanted to be clear on that...
>
> Charles
>



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