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[quote="ian"]While you might have a point, as was pointed out earlier, there are literally thousands of debian apps..[/quote]

I can see your point, but I think that an app that adds support for a protocol that otherwise leaves a significant minority of clients poorly supported is in a different ...

Just for interest, given the lack of AFP support as standard I ended up buying a ReadyNAS Duo, with which I am very happy indeed. One lost sale might not be significant, but I bet there are plenty of others who have decided similarly.

In my case Bubba would be used to replace a Mac Mini (G4 processor) running MacOS X Server 10.3.9. It currently provides file sharing, email, ftp and web services. It's been running for 242 days without a crash or restart. I hope (and, I must say expect) that Bubba will be able to at least equal this!

Thanks, guys, you really are a very helpful lot. And understanding, too!

Thanks for your comments.

I did take a look at the wiki page you linked, but as per normal it posed almost as many questions as it answered. What is "emerging"? This is not explained. Also how does one "use an initscript"? What does the command rc-update do? I assume one just executes this at a ...

Thanks to both of you for the comments. As I suspected, adding AFP support seems to be more complicated than was suggested by wetigon above.

I do get frustrated by linux bods who blithely say "Oh, you just do this and then this and you're ready to go". I am pretty technically savvy with both Macs ...

If it really is as trivial as you say, why don't Excito just hide the process behind the UI? Sounds like it would only be about 10 mins work for them.

Thanks for elucidating that. However there's no way that I want to get involved in the complexities of installing things on Linux - I've heard too many horror stories about things going wrong and it never seems to be straightforward like it is on more user-considerate operating systems. Great for ...

Is this supported through the Bubba UI? If so, I'd suggest that you list AFP support as a feature - It's something that Apple users will definitely be very keen to see, and is one of the reasons that Infrant products are currently so attractive. Although Macs, as you undoubtedly know, support a very ...

I really like the Bubba product and I am currently in the market for a NAS for my network to replace a power-hungry server. However the one thing that might push me in the direction of something like the Infrant products is the lack of native AFP support. Any chance of implementing this in the near ...