Re: Netatalk problems with macs


Subject: Re: Netatalk problems with macs
From: jim smith (jim@xoo.co.uk)
Date: Thu Mar 30 2000 - 13:21:39 EST


At 12:49 pm -0500 30/3/00, Dave wrote:
>Hello-
> I have been trying to get netatalk on my SUSE 6.3 box, my main problem
>is my macs seem oblivious to its pressence. I have loaded the appletalk
>module into the kernel so that should be set. Then I executed a "make
>install" in the netatalk directory and then I moved all of my configurtaion
>files to the /usr/local/atalk/etc. I can get atalkd running by a rc.
>startup script and everything seems like it should be okay, but its not...
> A quick dash to the closest mac and I find that I can't find the
>appletalk server even when in the chooser I type in the ip. I really don't
>know what else I should check I of course made sure the network is up and
>that I can get to the webpage of the box that is suppose to be serving
>atalkd. What could be wrong here? The daemon is running the network is up,
>what else is there to configure? Thanks for the help.
>Dave

the rc.atalk script can happily fail without telling you

do afpd and atakd appear with a ps wax?

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