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AAMacDaddy
Feb 26, 2011Aspirant
AFP Out Of Date In OS X Lion
I have a ReadyNAS NV+ with RAIDiator 4.1.7 [1.00a043] installed. Using the developer preview of OS X Lion, I get this message when trying to connect. "The version of the server you are trying to c...
mdgm-ntgr
Feb 26, 2011NETGEAR Employee Retired
Just had a look around and I've determined that the dhx2 user authentication module is installed on x86 ReadyNAS in 4.2.15 but not on Sparc ReadyNAS in 4.1.7. Not sure why NetGear left it out. It could've been for performance reasons due to the slow Sparc CPU and not wanting to introduce additional overhead.
If you want to check for yourself take a look at the following:
and
So if anyone has a x86 ReadyNAS and access to the Mac OS X Lion developer preview they should be able to verify that AFP works fine currently on x86 ReadyNAS with Mac OS X Lion.
If you want to check for yourself take a look at the following:
Sparc-NAS:~# ls /usr/lib/netatalk
uams_clrtxt.so uams_dhx_pam.so uams_dhx_passwd.so uams_dhx.so uams_guest.so uams_pam.so uams_passwd.so
and
x86-NAS:~# ls /usr/lib/netatalk
uams_clrtxt.so uams_dhx2_pam.so uams_dhx2_passwd.so uams_dhx2.so uams_dhx_pam.so uams_dhx_passwd.so uams_dhx.so uams_guest.so uams_pam.so uams_passwd.so uams_randnum.so
So if anyone has a x86 ReadyNAS and access to the Mac OS X Lion developer preview they should be able to verify that AFP works fine currently on x86 ReadyNAS with Mac OS X Lion.
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