Subject: Re: Netatalk & OSX Compatability Problems
From: Paul Guba (paulguba@comcast.net)
Date: Tue Mar 26 2002 - 21:24:27 MST
Neil if you found something that works than please post it. This
problem comes up repeatedly. I would like to get it working but haven't
yet.
P Guba
On Tuesday, March 26, 2002, at 10:01 PM, Neil Jolly wrote:
> On Tue, 2002-03-26 at 19:00, 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???
>
> I finally got a chance to get netatalk working with OS X on my network.
> I used netatalk-1.5.1.1-1. As has been previously mentioned on the list
> add a login announcement (although I never bothered to try mine
> without). Also make sure that you have allowed connections via tcp in
> /etc/hosts.allow, and are accepting connections over tcp in your atalk
> config files, since OS X only supports afp connections via tcp.
>>
>> 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?)).
>
> OS X only supports afp connections over tcp not over appletalk. So if
> you can login just fine with OS 9, but not OS X I'd suspect tcp problem.
> If you like I can send you my config files.
>
>>
>> Eric.
>>
>>
> --
> Neil Jolly
>
> (with Yoda-like voice)
> "Confrontation leads to anger... Anger leads to fear... Fear leads
> to using Windows NT in mission-critical combat systems... And this is
> how the ancients fell...
>
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