AFP Out Of Date In OS X Lion

glawrie wrote:
Would be interesting to know what solution Apple use for their Time Capsule box - presumably not Netatalk - and whether there are alternative solutions NAS vendors could use (e.g. not open source). NAS boxes are not cheap, so vendors coughing up for functional commercial software might be economic if such worked better.

Apple use a version of OSX with their own closed source AFP implementation, just as they do on all their hardware.

Changed authentication is commonly a cause of incompatibility as companies like Apple (and Microsoft with SMB/CIFS) look to improve security and 3rd party installations then play 'catch up' - which will always be the case given Apple specify AFP and so will always be ahead when it comes to latest feature support.

There is no guarantee that paying for 3rd party commericial software - if it even exists - will mean better support than very widely used open-source implementations, such as netatalk in this instance. In either case NAS vendors will have to keep up to date with the latest available software - the link @mdgm quoted shows clearly that not all NAS vendors are doing this - but will seldom deploy beta software in production firmware to support a 3rd party beta software (ie Lion in this case, which as AFAIK has no formal public release date)

Based on experience, and comments elsewhere in this forum, there appears to be no grounds for certainty that Netgear will upgrade the AFP on the NV+ series of boxes at all, which would leave us in a bit of a bind.

Neither has any other vendor guaranteed every model of NAS they produce will have upgraded AFP support for Lion