Re: [netatalk-admins] problems with MacOS 8 and netatalk ...


Subject: Re: [netatalk-admins] problems with MacOS 8 and netatalk ...
From: Michael May (mmay@sfei.org)
Date: Tue Oct 28 1997 - 12:46:46 EST


>I just joined the list after installing 1.42b2, hoping it would fix the
>problems I'm having.
>
>Basically, if I open a directory on my mac that is exported from Linux via
>netatalk, it continually refreshes the window (for example, the list view
>counts up the files as it acquires them, reaches 109 files, falls back
>down the 73 files, goes slowly back up to 109, and repeats forever)
>
>Thi is making it fairly unusable ... the files are constantly moving in
>the window (list view), lots of cpu time is being spent doing this.
>
>Is this a know problem? Is there a workaround?

Two fixes: try this patch:

>An official patch has been released on the netatalk web pages to fix currently
>known problems with netatalk's integration with MacOS8.
>
>The patch can be found at the following web page:
>
> http://www.umich.edu/~rsug/netatalk/patches/1.4b2/
>
>So far, nobody using the patch, including us, has reported any problems
>with the
>patch. If you find anything, please contact us at:
>
> netatalk@umich.edu

Or asun's latest patch:

>i've made a17 available at ftp.u.washington.edu:/public/asun. here's
>the relevant urls:
><ftp://ftp.u.washington.edu/public/asun/netatalk-1.4b2+asun2.0a17.tar.gz>
><ftp://ftp.u.washington.edu/public/asun/a16-a17.diff.gz>
><ftp://ftp.u.washington.edu/public/asun/1.4b2-a17.diff.gz>

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Michael May
San Francisco Estuary Institute
(510) 231-9539



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