Subject: Re: Macs in chooser using TCP
From: Aaron Levitt (alevitt@navis.com)
Date: Mon Aug 28 2000 - 11:00:48 EDT
Well.. after mucking around with netatalk, I couldn't get the box to show in the chooser with the -noddp flag, so I just removed the flag from my afpd.conf. I am still using the pre39 version on a 2.2.14 kernel and it appears to be fine aside from that. As far as I can tell, it still defaults to afp-over-tcp. I tested it on various macs with various OS's and they all pick tcp.
One side notes I noticed I thought I would point out, is when I compiled the source, I enabled all the various password authentication I could (with the exception of kerberos). With OS9 (I guess from the new changes in the security code) it automatically uses "Encrypted Password Transport" which seems pretty secure. I sniffed the network and was unable to see the passwords, though I am not sure which method it uses on the unix side (looking at /var/log/messages, I would guess PAM). So with OS9, you don't need to use the .passwd file in the home dir and you don't end up with cleartext passwords floating around your network.
Also, I received a couple messages asking how you can tell whether the mount used TCP or not. There are two ways. The first, which may not work in all cases, if there is a small globe in the lower right hand side of the icon of the mounted server, that means it used TCP. If that isn't the case, on the mac you mounted the share, if you "get info"(cmd + I) on the share, it will say in the dialog. In the "Where" information it will say either "$mount,$box,via TCP" or "$mount,$box,via appleshare".
Hope this information helps someone along the way.
-Aaron
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Aaron Levitt 1616 Franklin Street
Systems Administrator Oakland, CA 94612
Navis LLC Tel: 510-763-5715
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