On 04 Sep 2012, at 18:37, <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Tue, 04 Sep 2012 17:06:06 +0100, "James Relph" <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> This to some extent goes back to something I've been talking about >> recently. The current version of netatalk (v3) is actually excellent on >> OI. NetAFP added cross-protocol file locking with the native CIFS client >> and netatalk will use ZFS xattrs to store Mac xattrs. The actual >> problem has turned out to be the Windows integration, because it's > either: > > AD issues are going to require someone tenacious, motivated, and a bit > masochistic as it's historically been a bit of a moving target. > > Low hanging fruit is to ignore the AD integration for now, make this a good > NAS for home users without the AD integration issues resolved. Example of a > common use case: iTunes media library. 2+ TB of music, movies, books, > podcasts, etc. becomes more than a bit unwieldy to handle natively on a > Mac, but Illumos is well suited to handle this workload. No AD integration > is necessary for this use case. Local system auth is "good enough".
The use case described is handled perfectly by OSX server ($15 these days...). It might still be a good idea but don't believe that Mac users are waiting for such a NAS without any alternatives... _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
