Netatalk

[Brogan Ross]

Eric Dunbar wrote:

>On Sat, 26 Mar 2005 19:48:00 -0500, Brogan Ross <broganross at mac.com> wrote:
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>>Hey everyone,
>>    I'm trying to get netatalk set up and running on my eMac which I
>>injected with a little YDL 4.  So far I've spent a butt load of time
>>trying to figure out to install it properly (cuz I'm pretty new to
>>Linux).  Now I've gotten to the point of the Linux machine showing up in
>>the Network browser on my Powerbook (OSX.3.8), but when I tell it to
>>connect I get an error that says:  This file server is running on your
>>machine.  Please access the volumes and files locally.
>>
>>I'm guessing this has something to do with the .AppleVolumes.default
>>file, but I'm sure what I should do.
>>
>>The only other possibility I can think of is that netatalk is set up to
>>connect to the Powerbook in the opposite direction.  If this is so, how
>>would I go about doing that.  Like I said I'm pretty new to Linux.
>>Could I just connect through Konqueror, or what??
>>
>>Any help is greatly appreciated.
>>    
>>
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>You probably won't want to hear this but...
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>For me AppleTalk required no configuration whatsoever (YDL 4.0 (.0)).
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>I merely installed the netatalk package using yum and turned on atalk
>using the redhat-config-network app (or whatever it is now). Then I
>made sure that it's started at boot using the same network
>configuration app (both steps are obvious) and now I can log-in into
>my accounts on the YDL machine (username/password, clear text
>password).
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>You can also (as I recently discovered ;) use netatalk to share files
>between the "host computer" and MOL. Under Ubuntu (5.04 developer
>version) I installed netatalk and Synaptic did all the hard work --
>installed 1.64, activated it and inserted it into the boot sequence
>(someday I ought to figure out how to configure network services in
>Fedora/YDL and Debian/Ubuntu).
>
>eric.
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Nope I tried a clean install and didn't set up anything, and I still get 
the same message.

Can anyone help me??