Subject: Re: Problems with Netatalk authentication
From: Patrik Schindler (poc@pocnet.net)
Date: Fri Mar 31 2000 - 13:04:34 EST
At 11:29 Uhr -0500 31.03.2000, Nick Vlku wrote:
>Hi everyone. I just installed Netatalk on a bunch of machines which use
>NIS/NFS to get user account information and home directories. For some
>strange reason, on most of my machines, I can not log in and mount my
>directory.
Which version do you use? What says syslog? What exact error messages do you get?
>Does netatalk have to be installed locally on each machine (i currently
>have it stored on an nfs partition)? I can't see anything else wrong with
>this configuration or any differences between one install and the other.
You'll have to configure (at compile-time) ETCPATH to something locally, because the machines would overwrite each others atalkd.conf.
>I'm running a Redhat 5.2 Linux configuration, with a 2.0.38 kernel on each
>machine. The macs are System 8.6, and the servers are scattered across
>multiple zones.
I had experimented with NFS and netatalk but it's rather slow but it worked in vanilla 1.4b2 (before Adrian started to enhance netatalk in a beautiful way).
:wq! PoC
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