AFP Out Of Date In OS X Lion

flamesong wrote:
However, if the unit which deals with the ReadyNAS marque does not want to be tarred with the same brush as the folk who neglect the modems and routers, it is their responsibility not to behave ion the same manner.

Well, I think it's pretty clear from NetGear still providing firmware updates to long discontinued Infrant ReadyNAS products that they don't neglect their ReadyNAS products.

flamesong wrote:
Apple has released developer previews of OS X 10.7 over the past several months and responsible developers who want to keep their customers seamlessly up and running have been busy updating their software and releasing beta versions for testing for months. Apart from reading about it all over the place, I know this because I have been beta testing myself.

The 2.2 update to the 3rd party Netatalk project has received much testing from the Linux community. There's no need for NetGear to push out public betas addressing compatibility issues with a beta OS when the Linux community does a fine job addressing those issues themselves. It should be fairly easy for NetGear to begin pushing out public betas with Lion support after a production Lion is released. If your clients use their Macs for business you shouldn't encourage them to upgrade to Lion as soon as its released anyway.

flamesong wrote:
I am grateful for the posts from members who could understand my point and I'm somewhat mystified by the indignance from somebody who evidently is not as concerned that they cannot connect to their ReadyNAS Time Machine volume, as I am.

If you choose to run a beta Operating System you should not be surprised if you have compatibility issues and if an update addressing those issues is not pushed out till after the Operating System goes production. The ReadyNAS does much more than a piece of software you run on your Mac.

flamesong wrote:
Yes, I am aware that you have posted an add-on but when somebody adds the caveat, 'use at your own risk', I am not a cornucopia of confidence.

WhoCares? add-on was demonstrating what was possible. His add-on is obviously not supported by NetGear and though it should work fine should only be installed on non-production systems.