Subject: Re: [netatalk-admins] netatalk on RHL 5.1
From: Magnus Stenman (stone@hkust.se)
Date: Wed Oct 07 1998 - 04:28:11 EDT
Craig Roberts wrote:
>
> Hi,
> (This is my first post to this list.)
>
> I am trying to get netatalk running on my RHL 5.1 (Intel) box.
> I am not a developer, just want to use it for Mac/Win File/Print services.
>
> I installed RH5.1 and that was working ok.
> I downloaded netatalk1.4b2 as an rpm and did rpm -i <package> to install it.
>
> Then I read the kernel HOWTO doc and did follwoing :
> make config (setting DDP to "Y")
> make dep; make clean
> make zImage
> make zlilo
> .... and then rebooted.
...into the old kernel.
RedHat 5.1 keeps it's kernels in /boot
stick vmlinuz and System.map there, rerun lilo and reboot
(make a backup of the old vmlinuz and an extra entry in lilo.conf, so
you can back out
if the kernel got compiled all wrong)
>
> Now, the problem I am having is that the server is there under the Chooser,
> but when I try to connect from a Mac I get message : "No response from the
> server. Please try again."
> However, I can ping it, from it, use the internet and SaMBa appears to work as
> I can connect from a Win95 machine (much to my surprise - ahead of schedule).
>
> Questions I have as follows :-
> There is _no_ /etc/atalk directory as mentioned in many docs. There are,
> however, the following :-
> /etc/atalkd.conf
> /etc/rc.d/atalk.init
> /usr/include/... - many files
> /usr/lib/... - many files
> /usr/src/linux-2.0.34/include/linux/atalk.h
> /usr/src/linux-2.0.34/include/net/atalkcall.h
> /usr/src/linux-2.0.34/net/appletalk/sysctl_net_atalk.c
> ..and a some docs, man pages...
Yep.
Haven't noticed any /etc/atalk on my boxes
>
> Does this look right ?
>
> I gather there are patches for netatalk1.4b2 that might fix this, but some of
> them are refering to a sun's patches for AppleShareIP. Is this different ?
asun's patches add *lots* of functionality and fixes. recommended.
>
> Can someone please help ?
>
> -+-x-o-+-x-o-+-x-o-+-x-o-+-x-o-+-x-o-+-x-o-+-x-o
> Craig Roberts
> Senior IT Consultant
> College of Education, Christchurch, New Zealand.
>
> "I want to see mountains again, Gandalf - mountains;
> and then find somewhere where I can rest."
> Bilbo Baggins in Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien
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