Subject: Re: Netatalk and aliases
From: andrew morgan (morgan@orst.edu)
Date: Thu Jun 22 2000 - 12:23:10 EDT
On Thu, 22 Jun 2000, Aaron Levitt wrote:
> To be completely honest, the test is still a bit incomplete due to the
> fact we are waiting on the hardware vendor to figure out what we have
> to do to upgrade our kernel without losing support for our hardware.
> This means that we don't currently have appletalk compiled into the
> kernel, thereby not allowing the atalkd (classic appleshare server) to
> run. So, the results of the tests are only from the afpd server.
> The only downside to the way it is set up now, is it isn't browseable
> from the chooser on the mac side (you have to enter the ip
> address/hostname to mount the share). We are continuing to deal with
> the vender and may still compile appletalk into the kernel but I'm not
> sure that one advantage is worth the hassle.
You should still be able to load appletalk as a kernel module without
recompiling your kernel. Check if you have a file appletalk.o in
/lib/modules/<kernel version>/misc. If you do, then you can load it
manually by typing "modprobe appletalk", and then atalkd should
successfully start.
> However, I would really be interested in knowing if using atalkd also
> might re-introduce the aliases problem or any other problems. Has
> anyone else used 39_test yet?? I am interested in comparing results
> if anyone has it up and running yet, as we are looking to roll this
> out company-wide in the next couple weeks.
Atalk has nothing to do with aliases. It just provides the Appletalk
networking transport. Afpd handles all the file sharing details such as
aliases, so don't worry about breaking aliases by running atalkd.
Good luck, and thanks for the status report!
Andy
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