Subject: Re: Chooser is Strange!
From: Ron Chmara (ron@Opus1.COM)
Date: Wed Feb 16 2000 - 23:50:29 EST
"Daniel E. Lautenschleger" wrote:
> Here's what's happening:
> I have one SGI box running IRIX and an Apple protocol service called
> "Xinet".
K-talk, K-Ashare, yup. Good stuff... strange routing setups, though.
> 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:"
Okay... so you are showing both in the chooser, so the broadcast/connection
info for the particular servers show up properly. However, when you
invoke the client, it starts going to the wrong server....
> 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.
So it's not a LAN hardware, or TCP/IP issue.....
> 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?
Depends on how long you've used Xinet. :-)
> 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!?
The actual data exchange is long and boring, so to keep it short, and simple:
1. Try setting K-talk to *not* seed the zone (only when no other router is available).
*or*
2. Make sure the zone/numbering settings on K-talk are identical, logically, to netatalk.
*or*
3. Make a separate zone for each sever in your master atalk router, so they
don't argue about zone control.
I've seen K-talk duke it out with a cobalt qube, resetting the appletalk every
few minutes. All sorts of fun. Either force them to play nice (and one gets
numbers from the other), or force them to be identically set, and let 'em
duke it out, or stick them in their own sandboxes (zones).
HTH,
-Ronabop
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