Netatalk & OSX Compatability Problems Solved

[Paul Guba]

When was this version available?  I installed the latest Netatalk 
version several weeks ago and it did not work for me.  Not sure what 
version it was though.



On Thursday, April 4, 2002, at 11:54 PM, Romeyn Prescott wrote:

> Somewhen around 8:53 PM -0700 4/4/02, a person believing themself to be 
> Neil Jolly scribbled:
>> On Thu, 2002-04-04 at 07:31, Paul Guba wrote:
>>>  Neil
>>>
>>>  Finally had time to deal with this issue.  Your advice worked like a
>>>  charm.  You need to submit this page to YDL How to.  Thank you very 
>>> much.
>>>
>>>  P Guba
>>
>> Glad to hear that it wored for you. That's 3 of us now that I know of.
>> If you're listening Dan (or whoever) help yourself to that
>> page.(http://www.jollycom.ca/osx/atalk.html), and do whatever you 
>> please
>> with the info.
>
> I work with one of the netatalk developers (though not ON netatalk 
> itself); he's the guy who wrote the original Webmin module for it 
> (still needing work, by his own admission).  We figured out one day a 
> few weeks ago that setting your netatalk server to display a login 
> "welcome" message would allow OS X clients to connect.  This had the 
> effect of delaying the connection ever-so-slightly and allowing 
> <something> more time to happen.  It basically "stalled" OS X while 
> netatalk could "catch up".
>
> (I apologize for not being more technical, but I'm quite ignorant as to 
> the exact details.)
>
> ANYHOO; as he figured out what was wrong, he submitted a patch to the 
> netatalk project to incorporate a delay (on the order of a few 
> milliseconds, if memory serves) into the connection process.  This 
> appears to have been implemented as of 1.5.3.1.  I just installed it on 
> my new YDL 2.1 box today and my OS X-running PowerBook connects just 
> fine.
>
> Still, I suppose, YMMV.  Someone else wanna try it?
>
> ...ROMeyn
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