[netatalk-admins] Re: Error with netatalk-1.4b2+asun2.0a15 and FreeBSD 2.2.2


Subject: [netatalk-admins] Re: Error with netatalk-1.4b2+asun2.0a15 and FreeBSD 2.2.2
From: Eric Cronin (ecronin@engin.umich.edu)
Date: Thu Aug 21 1997 - 15:06:24 EDT


On Thu, 21 Aug 1997, Eric Cronin wrote:

> Hello. I have been playing with the new TCP/IP patches for netatalk on my
> BSD box, and am having a problem. Connecting to the server, mounting
> volumes, copying files from it, running programs on it etc. all works
> fine. But when I attempt to copy from a mac to the netatalk server,
> connected either over appletalk or TCP/IP, I get an error type -50 on the
> mac side and:
> Aug 21 10:27:27 chicago afpd[200]: afp_setforkparams: ad_dtruncate: File
> too large
>
> in the servers log file. I only have access to MacOS 8 machines, so this
> may actually be the MacOS8's AppleShare clients fault not netatalk.
> Anyone running 7.6 is welcome to try connecting as guest to
> chicago.gmi.edu and uploading something to the incoming directory.
>
> Eric
>

An interesting addition to this: It looks like MacOS8 is to blame here,
and the finder in particular (maybe the new multithreaded copy?). If I
save from within an application to a netatalk mounted volume, there are no
problems at all, even with a multi-megabyte file... Very unusual.

Eric



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