Subject: Re: Only Guest Login with 1.4.99
From: Luke McNeilage (lmn@d2p.com.au)
Date: Thu Oct 05 2000 - 23:03:53 EDT
Your netatalk.conf is more likely to have this:
ATALK_NAME=`echo ${HOSTNAME}|cut -d. -f1`
than this:
> ATALK_NAME=<insertyourservernamehere>
>
I change the name her to look a bit more "Mac", so it certainly has no
bearing on the IP.
However, this name must be matched to your afpd.conf, or the IP won't work.\
That's a
-
for default, or the same name you replaced the 'ATALK_NAME= ' with.
>>I'm troubled here since i get my IP number from a DHCP server. It is pretty
>>stable, but can change if the netadmin wants to. Is it a good idea to add
>>the IP number here or is there any workaround?
\
> 1. If the client starts by double-clicking on the server name in the
> Chooser, the client's Mac talks to the server via DDP and asks, "Hey, are
> you on IP?
> 2. Server says "Yup."
> 3. Client asks, "What's your IP?"
> 4. Server looks in /etc/hosts, and if there's an entry matching what
> appears in ATALK_NAME=<servername>, it uses that IP and sends it back.
\
> Now here's my guess, somebody correct me if I'm wrong: If that name
> (whatever you plugged into ATALK_NAME=) isn't in /etc/hosts, but is
> defined on your DNS server, and your Linux box is configured to use that
> DNS server, I think that will work.
>
> So assuming I'm right, you'd need to have your DNS and DHCP configured so
> they coordinate the name of your machine with the assignment of the IP.
> Clear?
>
So yes Steve, I'm sorry but this bit is wrong. It calls simultaneously on
both the Atalk (Appletalk protocol) and the afpd (ASIP protocol), but if
they don't agree, you only get one or the other.
>
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