Subject: [netatalk-admins] Linux, Netatalk and disappearing Server (fwd)
From: Paonia (paonia@khan.massart.edu)
Date: Thu Aug 27 1998 - 21:26:43 EDT
Here is email from our revrdist person. In going back over the archive of
netatalk-admins it seems other people have had this problem anyone come
up with a way of fixing it once and for all.
thanks
paonia
>
> We use a Linux server running Netatalk 1.4b2 as file server for our
> RevRdist masters. We have this problem where the server doesn't show up
> in the chooser. This disappearing act is completely random affecting one
> or two machines at a time but not others. I know it isn't a
> general network problem because other networked machines show up in the
> chooser. I know that the server isn't down because it will show up in the
> chooser on other machines in the labs. Sometimes it will go away when you
> reboot or if you change the Appletalk settings and then change them back
> (though this fix doesn't seem to work with OS 8.1).
>
> We have applied the Appleshare IP patches (not asun) as well as the Mac
> OS 8 dancing icon patch and the be free patch to Netatalk but it doesn't
> solve the problem.
>
> Thanks in advance for your assistance.
>
> Meg
>
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