Re: Netatalk 1.4b2 on Solaris 2.5.1


Subject: Re: Netatalk 1.4b2 on Solaris 2.5.1
From: M. L. Welles (mwelles@wire4.ap.org)
Date: Tue Jun 17 1997 - 13:00:16 EDT


Speed doubler was the culprit for the problems we were having around
here, too (netatalk on Solaris 2.5.1).

I haven't had a chance to look into it, either.

Geoff Adams writes:
> > Has anyone succeeded in getting Netatalk 1.4b2 working on Solaris 2.5.1?
>
> Haven't tried that, but I think I know what your problem is anyway. :)
>
> > when I drag a file into a folder on
> > a Netatalk server, it seems to mostly work, except at the end I get a
> > pop-up message about "File does not exist" on the Mac
>
> My guess is that you are using Speed Doubler 2, and you have "Faster
> File Copying" turned on. I recently noticed exactly this problem, but I
> haven't looked into why it's occurring, yet. Turn off that option, and
> all will work. (I may be mistaken, and it's one of the other related
> options, but I think that's the one.)
>
> A couple days ago, I also noticed another Speed Doubler 2 problem: Movie
> Player does not recognize MPEG movies if you try to play them directly
> off a netatalk volume, while simply copying a movie to a local disk and
> then playing it works just fine. Haven't had a chance to look into this
> one, either.
>
> - Geoff
>



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