Subject: Re: [netatalk-admins] HELP: nbprgstr problems with Linux
From: John Sutton (john@scl.co.uk)
Date: Thu Oct 09 1997 - 18:19:37 EDT
Sounds like the same problem I had earlier today! I copied over a netatalk
config from one box to a second, _including_ the /etc/atalk.conf file.
Consequently both machines try to grab the same numeric id (that's probably
the wrong term - I mean the second of the two numbers in the output of
nbplkup). Fix is simple - delete the line from the conf file of one
machine and then start up netatalk. It will poll the network and allocate
itself a new unique id and then write that to the conf file for future use.
If this is the explanation, the corollary is that you must ensure that all
existing appletalk machines are active (in a given zone?) when you first
start up a new one. Otherwise there can be no guarantee than it won't
allocate itself an id which is the same as that of a machine which doesn't
happen to be switched on. Huh? Sounds pretty messy if the zone gets big
enough...
>I have a rather strange situation. For almost a year I've been running
>netatalk on a Linux box,
>and it works pretty much flawlessly. To protect the innocent, let's call
>it machine A.
>
>We recently purchased another machine running Linux (machine B). I
>basically just copied
>over all of the already working stuff to machine B.
>
>Now the symptoms:
>
> 1) machine B doesn't appear in the chooser, nor if you use
>AppleTalk polling
>programs such Trawl and LanSatellite
>
> 2) machine A appears fine in all of the above
>
> 3) AFP over TCP/IP works fine over both machines A and B.
>
> 4) nbplkup returns nothing when run on machine B
>
> 5) nbplkup on machine A doesn't report itself (feature/bug?) but
>does report machine B!
>
> 6) when nbprgstr is run on machine B, it responds with a connection
>timed out message
>
>
>I tried -seed in atalkd.conf to no avail.
>
>Machine B has different Ethernet hardware than machine A.
>Machine B kernel is 2.0.30; machine A is 2.0.27
>
>The netatalk version is netatalk-1.4b2+asun2.0a14
>
>Any help would be GREATLY appreciated.
>
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> And what is more, I agree with everything I have just said.
> - Piet Koornhoff
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