Subject: RE: Chooser is Strange!
From: Daniel E. Lautenschleger (delautenschl@facstaff.wisc.edu)
Date: Wed Feb 16 2000 - 16:49:16 EST
Yes, atalkd.conf file is configured for an appropriate address (like you've
listed below) and does not share the node with any other machine.
-Dan
At 04:27 PM 2/16/00 -0500, you wrote:
>Did you configure an atalkd.conf file with a different address and
>set it to the correct zone, here's an example:
>hme0 -phase 2 -net 40385 -addr 40385.217 -zone "brn_CIS_Services"
>You need to set this up for proper chooser action.
>the TCP/IP conection will still work regardless if the atalkd.con file
>is set right since the atalkd.conf file is for the Appletalk protocol, this
>will effect the chooser big time.
>
>I've seen the chooser get confused big time when there is a conflict.
>
>
>We use netatalk here as a Appletalk/DFS gateway.
>
>
>
>
>On 16-Feb-00 Daniel E. Lautenschleger wrote:
> > I am running pre-asun2.1.4-38a_test on a Red Hat 6.1 box with kernel
> 2.2.14
> > on a 100 Base-T network. I have several boxes running this configuration
> > and up until now have not had any problems. Let's call my machine LINUXBOX.
> >
> > Here's what's happening:
> >
> > I have one SGI box running IRIX and an Apple protocol service called
> > "Xinet". Let's call the machine BIOINFORMATICS. When my linux box shows up
> > in a Mac chooser and I click on it to log on, and the applet displays
> > "Connect to the file server 'BIOINFORMATICS' as:"
> >
> > Now, I should see LINUXBOX instead of BIOINFORMATICS. If I choose to
> log in
> > via TCP/IP then I get the correct logon information showing up in the
> applet.
> >
> > If I shut off the Xinet program on the BIOINFORMATICS machine and attempt
> > to log into LINUXBOX, then all is fine and dandy. Weird, huh?
> >
> > What I don't understand is what a Mac looks at when the user decides to
> log
> > onto a server via the chooser. How is it thinking that BIOINFORMATICS
> is my
> > machine!?
> >
> > Thanks for any help that you can provide.
> >
> > -Dan
> >
> > Daniel E. Lautenschleger
> > Network Administrator and Computer Support
> > R. M. Bock Laboratories
> > delautenschl@facstaff.wisc.edu
> >
>
>----------------------------------
>E-Mail: Jerry Normandin <Jerry_Normandin@.brown.edu>
>Date: 16-Feb-00
>Time: 16:22:08
>Sr. Unix Administrator, Brown University CIS Department
>----------------------------------
Daniel E. Lautenschleger
Network Administrator and Computer Support
R. M. Bock Laboratories
delautenschl@facstaff.wisc.edu
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