Re: Netatalk & OSX Compatability Problems


Subject: Re: Netatalk & OSX Compatability Problems
From: Paul Guba (paulguba@comcast.net)
Date: Tue Mar 26 2002 - 20:01:25 MST


Easy fix only works on some machines. On many it has not. It is a
problem with atalkd. I have yet to find a solution that worked.

On Tuesday, March 26, 2002, at 09:42 PM, Matthew S. Krawitz wrote:

> I had this problem... it's a noted bug in atalkd and afpd.
>
> Have the server give you a welcome message...
>
> I'm not sure how I did it (just did a quick search on the conf files,
> etc... and nothing)... but I know this list solved the problem for
> me. Search the archives. There's an easy fix... :)
>
> - matthewk
>
> On Tuesday, March 26, 2002, at 06:00 PM, Eric D. wrote:
>
>> on 26/3/02 09:46, Michael Graham at mgraham@kiron-design.com wrote:
>>
>>> I'm currently running YDL 2.1 with netatalk-1.5pre2-6b.ppc.rpm. With
>>> my OS9
>>> clients, no problems. However, when I try to connect with my OSX
>>> clients it
>>> fails. I can connect, login, select a share but, when I try and mount
>>> the
>>> share this is the following error:
>>>
>>> "The file server 'LinuxServer' connection has unexpectedly closed
>>> down."
>> <snip>
>>> Now the following line is the indicator of what the problem is but I
>>> have no
>>> idea how to solve the issue.
>>> [ Mar 26 00:16:27 kiron-design afpd[21184]: dsi_stream_read(0): No
>>> such file
>>> or directory ]
>>>
>>> Anyone with this problem, or have ideas on how to fix???
>>
>> Could it be based on the fact that OS X only supports the latest
>> flavour of
>> AppleTalk & netatalk might be (?) based on the older (unsupported)
>> protocol?
>> (I'm guessing here on many counts (most importantly that netatalk is
>> AppleTalk)) I used to receive the same error with OS X when I try to
>> login
>> to an old version of AppleShare (Novell 3.1). Now (X 10.1.3) the error
>> message is less cryptic and actually states that the server is running
>> an
>> incompatible version (damn, if only I could remember what exactly it
>> is OS X
>> no longer supports (pre OT (Classic?) AppleTalk?)).
>>
>> Eric.
>>
> - matthewk (MSK2)
>



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