Subject: Re: [netatalk-admins] netatalk-1.4b2+MacOS 7.6.1 problems
From: Marc Heckmann (pfeif@step.polymtl.ca)
Date: Fri Aug 29 1997 - 17:04:24 EDT
On Wed, 27 Aug 1997, Walt Bigelow wrote:
>
>
> On Thu, 28 Aug 1997, Gonzalo Garcia-Agullo wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 27 Aug 1997, Marc Heckmann wrote:
> >
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > I am running netatalk 1.4b2 on a redhat-4.1 Linux system using
> > > kernel version 2.0.30. The netatalk machine shows up in the chooser list
> > > everywhere, however on MacOS >= 7.6 (with opentransport 1.1.1 or 1.1.2)
> > > when I try to access it, it gives the following error: "No response from
> > > server". Everything works great with MacOS <= 7.6. It's on a straight
> > > forward single subnet network. Does anybody have any idea what may be
> > > causing this? Thank you in advance.
> > >
> > > Marc Heckmann
> >
> > I get the same message from time to time. I'm running netatalk 1.4b2 on
> > Debian/GNU Linux which shares printers and volumes between macos (7.5.x,
> > 7.6.{0,1}) and PC (win 3.1, 95, nt) users.
> >
> > After a few days/weeks running successfully, the linux box is still in
> > their choosers but users cannot log in ("No response from server"). In
> > most cases, several afpd zombies appear and the linux shutdown/reboot is
> > the only way to recover the netatalk functionality.
> >
> > I tried to track the scenario, and it seems that this strange behaviour
> > takes place after several login failures and/or chooser time outs, but I'm
> > not sure.
> >
> > Any ideas?
>
> Well, what I have found to work with my setup: Slackware Linux 2.0.30
> (from the Slackware 96 rel) and netatalk 1.4b2 is the following...
>
> This only works if you have appletalk compiled as a module!!!
>
> Kill all atalk processes..
> do a lsmod to make sure appletalk is nolonger being used.
>
> rmmod appletalk
>
> modprobe appletalk (or however you like to install modules)
>
> then run you /etc/rc.d/rc.atalk script again.
>
> This clears up the probelms and keeps me from having to reboot!!!
>
> Cheers,
> Walt
>
> _________________________
> Walt Bigelow
> Engineer
> Varitel Video, San Francisco
>
Thanks a lot it worked :)
MArc
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