Subject: Re: Server is running atalk but doesn't appear in chooser
From: nathan r. hruby (nhruby@arches.uga.edu)
Date: Sat Feb 16 2002 - 12:22:06 MST
This is a dead thread, but I just ran into this problem at work the other
day as well and discovered that another culprit for this behavior is that
your router might be hanidng out information very solwly, so atalkd can't
get a completele copy of the ZIP info before nbprgstr runs.
You can try putting a "sleep <some number of seconds>" after the "daemon
atalkd" in the atalkd_startup() function in /etc/init.d/atalk to give
atalkd some time to get the ZIP routes and names synched before trying to
operate on them. I had to sleep 600, but there are about 100 zones and
our routers have a bug which takes about 5-10 to get all the zone info
out to a client.
HTH,
-n
On Wed, 6 Feb 2002, nathan r. hruby wrote:
> On Wed, 6 Feb 2002, Gary Ash wrote:
>
> > I tried using appletalk (using netatalk-1.5pre7-0, installed using 'rpm -U'), but when I start it up, I get the following:
> >
> > [root@9500 /root]#service atalk start
> > Starting AppleTalk services:
> > Starting atalkd: [ OK ]
> > Registering 9500:Workstation: nbp_rgstr: Connection timed out
> > Can't register 9500:Workstation@*
> > [FAILED]
> > Registering 9500:netatalk: nbp_rgstr: Connection timed out
> > Can't register 9500:netatalk@*
> > [FAILED]
> > Starting papd: [ OK ]
> > Starting afpd: [ OK ]
> >
> >
> > Also, after Appletalk has started up, the machine doesn't show up in
> > the chooser, although I can connect to it using the chooser's "Server
> > IP Address" button.
> >
> > So, should I be concerned about these failures on startup, and if so,
> > how can I fix them. Secondly, how do I make my machine show up in the
> > chooser of another Mac running MacOS?
> >
>
> Assuming you have multiple zones? I'm having a similar problem on x86
> with 5.1.1, won't startup / register in anthing but the defult zone.
>
> If you try to start the server with no ATALK_ZONE defined in
> /etc/atlak/netatalk.conf what happens (if you have a router it should give
> you a zone a nd network number in the defualt zone)?
>
> If you have multiple adaptoers on your machine, edit atalkd.conf and set
> the -dontroute flag on each adaptor you have, else atalkd will try to
> route ddp across all the adpators it finds.
>
> -n
>
-- ...... nathan hruby - nhruby@arches.uga.edu computer support specialist department of drama and theatre http://www.drama.uga.edu/ ......
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