on the week-end i installed some new stuff on my netbsd performa: netatalk (the version patched for afp/tcp by adrian sun) and samba.

bill mcgonigle's netatalk faq and this how to by anders brownworth helped me a lot with installation and configuration.

now i can easily connect from any other mac or windows machine to the pizzabox – well, almost easily: strangely enough, it worked from a windows 2000 machine but it did not from a computer running windows nt... i think due to misconfiguration on the nt box (otherwise it wouldn't work at all, would it?).

certainly i did enable plain text passwords in nt just as i did with windows 2000 (but i probably should undo this when i turn to ssl and security issues once).

update: after some fiddling around i finally made it! unfortunately, i cannot tell exactly what i did... but i assume it had to do with a missing FqdnUsesSmbServerName key in the nt registry. here is a full description of the circumstances.

btw. php is now also working seamlessly with apache. i had to recompile both packages enabling dso support (which was not too difficult thanks to 10 essential php tips for developers from india).

think i'll have to update my netbsd report.