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Date: Tue,  5 Sep 2006 12:46:07 -0700
From: "David Leimbach" <leimy2k@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: Re: [9fans] Aquarela usage
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On 9/5/06, Richard Miller <9fans@hamnavoe.com> wrote:
> > "aquarela -n -p -u 0 -w plan9"
> >
> > and get:
> >
> > "hostannounce failed: dgram send failed"
> >
> > every so often.
> ...
> > Does aquarela even do authentication?  I'm finding basically no
> > documentation on the whole thing but would like to try it out.
>
> Yes it does; I was using it just this afternoon to export files to
> a win2k client, and I couldn't connect until I spelled the password
> right.  I didn't use the -n or -w options, just started it
> with 'aquarela -p'.

How does aquarela authenticate then?  Is it the user that started the
aquarela server or any valid plan 9 user?

>
> If your client is a Mac, why not use NFS instead of SMB?
>

Ever used Mac OS X NFS? :-)  I've had quite negative experiences with it.

Dave