AFP Out Of Date In OS X Lion

mdgm wrote:
If you're not using Time Machine then simply enabling DHX2 e.g. using WhoCares? add-on earlier would be all you need. Though his add-on does have a lot of debug code in it.

Just to help out really =) as some people do use it for time machine.

I'm using the plugin from WhoCares?, but every time I restart my Mac, I have to restart the AFP service. It's a real pain.

Does anybody know what's the latest news (if any) on Netgear releasing an update with a working netatalk, or at least some estimate based on past experiences with how quickly they respond to things like this? Lion is already Golden Master now, and it looks likely that it's going to be released this upcoming week. I have a mixed network, so the patched binary that locks out previous versions of OSX is not a solution for me, and the thought of not being able to make Time Machine backups anymore (especially after a major OS upgrade) is disturbing. The ability to do TM backups over SMB/NFS seems to be gone as well (regardless of the protocol I used to access the share, it errors out telling me the drive doesn't support the AFP interface required by TM).

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Have similar situation. At least knowing what timeline is would help.

Usually is a little while after the major OS upgrade goes production, I think. NetGear doesn't support beta OSes (the GM is a Release Candidate, but still a beta). Being an early adopter of a major update does have it's drawbacks. I generally wait for at least a few point updates.

@mdgm - "I generally wait for at least a few point updates." - Sure. But such complacency is not much help to anyone buying a new Mac after July X...

Given the severity of the problem, and the proximity of the release of the final code, it is curious that there is nothing being said about this problem by the manufacturers who rely on Netatalk for a key selling point for their kit.

I'm running the latest publicly available beta of NetAtalk on my Pro against the latest incarnation of Lion on my MBP and I have no issues whatsoever. Time Machine backups work reliably, access to all shares is no problem. So technically it shouldn't be a problem for Netgear to release an updated firmware for the ReadyNAS once Lion hits the shops. Having said that there's always the chance of last minute changes to the OS by Apple that may break the for the moment flawlessly working compatibility of NetAtalk. So it's no wonder Netgear doesn't promise anything or even goes into a full fledged marketing campaign for a feature that may still break.

-Stefan

WhoCares? wrote:
it's no wonder Netgear doesn't promise anything or even goes into a full fledged marketing campaign for a feature that may still break.

It's an unfortunate truth: Say nothing about a given topic and your customers will invariably assume the worst, no matter your track record or any evidence to the contrary.

No evidence of Netgear doing anything is not evidence that Netgear is doing nothing

i'm just hoping that the fix comes to the sparc series (rocking an NV+ w/ 4 x 2TB Seagates) and happens simultaneously to the x86 based updates.

WhoCares?, would you make that latest code available as a .bin? The one you made available at http://whocares.de/rpro/LionAFPd_2.1.3-rns-0.1.2.bin is really, really bad, which is fine for a first go, but,...