Ask Slashdot:MacOS 8 and Linux Servers

Benny Simon contributed a question that might be a bit more tangible then the last one. He writes " Macintosh 8.0 and 8.1 clients which mount volumes exported by netatalk from the Linux server exhibit strange and mysical behavior (not the dancing icons or incorrect free space reporting). What happens is that many programs (Photoshop, Illustrator, sometimes Netscape, others) crash or exit when opening or saving a file to the mounted volume. In addition, when using the open or save dialog boxes to navigate around folders on the mounted volume, response from the server is *really* slow. " His System is Linux 2.0.33 (redhat5) running on a VAResearch PentiumII/233 with 128MB ram unning netatalk-1.4b2+asun2.0a18.2 and he has no problems with MacOS 7.5.5 clients. So guys, whats the word?