Subject: Re: Help for a newbie
From: Steve Freitas (sflist@ihonk.com)
Date: Tue Sep 19 2000 - 15:19:24 EDT
>Problem ONE
>
>All the Macs can see the RH6.0 box from the Chooser and can
>log on as guest. But they cannot see the new boxes but can
>log on as guest when the IP number is entered from the Chooser.
>When I check the startup logs of them (the 6.2 boxes) I see:
Add this line to your /etc/conf.modules file on your 6.2 boxen and reboot:
alias net-pf-5 appletalk
The problem is that Redhat decided to take Appletalk support out of the
kernel in 6.2. This line loads the appropriate kernel module, fixing that
inconvenient configuration change.
>Problem TWO
>I wish to restrict access to one of the machines based on IP Numbers.
>This is no problem for me with samba but how do I set the config
>(which config) file to do this for netatalk? I want the
>(restricted) Macs to have guest access, but no access for any other Macs
I'm not sure Netatalk has this functionality. However, unless someone
else suggests something better, you might consider configuring TCP
Wrappers (the Redhat-included "firewall" software) to block access to
port 548 to all but a few IPs. This would give you what you want.
>I may as well make a pig of myself while I'm here.
>How do I set up a config file so that a Mac can log in with a password
>but be restricted to read or write priveleges?
I'm not sure what you mean by this. Typically, access permissions (e.g.
read and write access) are controlled within the Linux filesystem, and
Netatalk merely obeys them. So if you want a group of users to only have
a certain type of access, you set up a directory in Linux to give that
type of access to that group. Does this answer your question?
Steve
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