NASLite Network Attached Storage

AFP/Bonjour support has been out and in use for a couple of weeks now. After the initial posts, there hasn't been much discussion pertaining to AFP. Are people using it? Any comments on implementation, performance, interoperability, etc.?

I am

I will be I hope once I get the time.
I have given up on AFP on my N5200 as the write speed was way to slow, read speed was just as quick or just quicker than SMB, but SMB also has fasr write speed with the OSX computers.
I have a new USB key now, just need spare time to do the upgrade.

I use it with my Mac Book Pro. I do not see much performance difference.

Upgraded a customer to 2.06 last week. Got a WOW! from the art departments MAC guys. No calls since so I'd say it's doing what it's supposed to do.

It is a lot easier with Leopard.

AFP Just shows up in Finder automatically, the same SMB do not it seems to struggle, reports all sorts of problems with it.

The NFS mounts better now with Leopard, especially when using the Net Utility for automounting, once setup just works. Although having many problems with permissions etc.

At the moment Leopard is reporting that the SMB NL mounts won't allow Guest access and won't accept named logins either. No a problem but will need to be sorted.

So in summary, AFP just works an dis very easy to use, NFS works for the more technically adventurous and SMB just doesn't work here anyway.

Mike

I'm not sure that's the case. Previous versions of OS X will not allow SMB connections to an open share and had to be tweaked per info posted on the Apple site. I assume the condition you are describing is caused by the same. There are a number of posts on this forum handling that.

Mac Leopard connects to Ubuntu Samba no problems at all and no hesitation.

I'll look into the issues you mention, I not worried about this, NFS is my preffered protocol.

i use AFP everyday - no problems at all.

For one of my leopard macs, I have to modify a file so authentication password was sent as plain text. This allowed guest to login.
I will use AFP from now on though.

its still too slow. i have a mac pro and getting 6-10mb on gigabit network. If i use afp to connect to my macbook pro (over exactly the same network connections) my speeds are huge, 10x this speed. what gives? why so slow?

netgear ga311 in the nas? change it?

What are the specs of your nas?

p4 2.4, 2gb ddr2 mem (pc4400 i think, i'll check)
1.1tb raid 5 array (lsi megaraid 150-4) (4x sata2 300gb)
ga311 network card, gigabit


its not the nas i think, as read speeds from the nas are quite quick.

anyway to measure the speed of writes to the disk on the nas?

more eth0 info

eth0: Identified chip type is 'RTL8169s/8110s'.
eth0: RTL8169 at 0xf8808000, 00:14:6c:cb:3d:00, IRQ 10
eth0: Auto-negotiation Enabled.
eth0: 1000Mbps Full-duplex operation.
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:14:6C:CB:3D:00
inet addr:192.168.1.10 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:55 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:42 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:5450 (5.3 KiB) TX bytes:10391 (10.1 KiB)
Interrupt:10 Base address:0x8000

i get 6-10 MB/s over 802.11 n with my macbook and NasLite. If i hardwire, i get about 50 MB/s

there has got to be a problem with your NAS if you can connect to other computers on the network and get gigabit speeds.

http://www.aja.com/ajashare/AJA_KONA_Sy ... v2.app.tar


aja is a high end video hardware company - the Aja Kona test app is excellent for testing disk throughput - just make sure you go to the application's preferences menu and select the option to allow testing of network drives.