Subject: Re: 1.99gb window limit
From: Marc J. Miller (itlm019@mailbox.ucdavis.edu)
Date: Tue Oct 03 2000 - 13:26:24 EDT
There's an option in AppleVolumes.default that is normally used to restrict
the visible size to 2G (for older versions of MacOS that don't understand
large hard drives). I think it's supposed to be disabled by default. Has
anyone tried fooling with that?
DHX only requires an updated version of AppleShare. Nothing is required to
activate it on the client side; it simply uses that method if it's
available.
ATALK_BGROUND="no" doesn't really affect operation. It's foregrounded while
atalkd, afpd, and papd are *loading*. After they're loaded, they go to the
background like any other daemon. Since it takes 10-20 seconds for the
Appletalk services to load, some people prefer that they load in the
background. Myself, I prefer to know when it's done loading so that as soon
as it's done loading, I can have a Mac log in to the server (and I don't
have to make a guess as to whether it's done loading yet).
----- Original Message -----
From: "Basil Hussain" <basil.hussain@specialreserve.net>
To: <netatalk-admins@umich.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, October 03, 2000 4:04 AM
Subject: Re: 1.99gb window limit
> Hi,
>
> > Just to chime in, but I have the similar problem with only seeing a
1.99gb
> > window on my server's true size - this is with 1.499 from SourceForge.
>
> Yes, this indeed appears to be a bug or misconfiguration. I have just
> installed netatalk-1.4.99-0.20000927mdk on RedHat 6.0 from the RPM on
> SourceForge and I'm getting the same thing.
>
> Whilst I'm on the subject of 1.4.99, I have a few suggestions for the
> default config supplied with it.
>
> In afpd.conf it indicates that the default config for file sharing is:
>
> - -transall -uamlist
> uams_guest.so,uams_clrtxt.so,uams_dhx.so -nosavepassword
>
> which seems a bit strange, as I believe that you have to set something
> special up on the Mac side to use DHX. Providing a default of:
>
> - -transall -uamlist uams_guest.so,uams_randnum.so -nosavepassword
>
> would be better, so long as you have OpenSSL installed (the RPM's
> dependencies seem to take care of that anyway). 2-way encrypted passwords
> just work out of the box.
>
> Also (and this is very strange), ATALK_BGROUND in netatalk.conf is set to
> 'no' by default! I can't imagine any situation (apart from debugging)
where
> you would want to run a daemon service in the foreground. Maybe this is
> intentional (as it is beta), but it confused the hell out of me for a
while.
>
> Regards,
>
> ------------------------------------------------
> Basil Hussain (basil.hussain@specialreserve.net)
>
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