[Gllug] AppleTalk

[Stephen Harker]

On Monday 17 December 2001 17:14, you wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 17, 2001 at 04:21:46PM +0000, Jim Bailey wrote:
> > On Monday, December 17, 2001, at 03:35 PM, Stephen Harker wrote:
> > > Does anyone know much about netatalk or indeed, AppleTalk
> > > protocol in general. I have netatalk running on 2 servers for
> > > the benefit of our sole Mac user (Graphic Designer) and in the
> > > chooser, the names of the servers used to come up but now they
> > > don't and its something to do with zones(?) and I'm stuffed if
> > > I can figure out what happened to it. You can enter IP
> > > addresses and connect OK but thats a bit annoying. Everything
> > > on the www assumes that you already know about AppleTalk and
> > > everything about AppleTalk makes no mention of Unix servers.
> >
> > may I suggest you try the following mailing list they should be
> > able to answer your questions, netatalk-admins at umich.edu.  It may
> > help if you restart netatalk at the cmd line on a Red Hat server
> > it is
> >
> > /etc/rc3.d/S91atalk restart
> >
> > I know it is not the most satisfactory solution to the problem
> > but it works for us on the occasions that we have problems with
> > server connections (about once a week).  You should also make
> > sure that you are running a pretty up to date version of Netatalk
> > as this will help.
>
> there were various problems with netatalk breaking the kernel
> module, but that was in the redhat 5.x era, with associated
> kernels. this should be fixed about the same time as the MacOS 8.x
> updates and "dancing icons" bug fix ...
>
> i haven't touched this stuff for years, and have no test boxen
> ATM...
>
> what version of thingys are you using?
>
> yours,
>
> kim
Actually, I've sussed it! I had added a zone entry in the 
netatalk.conf file that was not a valid zone and promptly forgot that 
I had done so. It works fine now. Thanks.
Steve
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Stephen Harker
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