Subject: Re: [netatalk-admins] HELP: nbprgstr problems with Linux
From: Geoff Ghose (geoff@focus.neusc.bcm.tmc.edu)
Date: Fri Oct 10 1997 - 10:55:05 EDT
John Sutton wrote:
> 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.
>
> >
> > 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.
> >
I should have made this clearer. Yes, I explicitly wiped out
atalkd.conf so that
it would get info from the router. And, I edited atalkd.conf so that it
had a unassigned
number (and forced that number with seed). And neither way worked!
What I really don't understand is how the working netatalk setup is able
to see
the non-working setup with nbplkup, but none of the Macs can.
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