Netatalk

[Brogan Ross]

Here's what I have set up: I've got an Asante router  getting the 
internet connection from my college's network.  I've got an eMac running 
YDL4 and I've got a 15 PB Alu running OSX3.8.
I've turned on both Personal File Sharing and Windows Sharing in the 
System Preferences.  I even turned off the firewall for this.  The PB's 
ip is 192.168.123.148 and eMac's is 192.168.123.158

Ok, so I went back and removed all the files for netatalk, and then did 
a clean install of netatalk using yum (sudo yum install netatalk).  I 
haven't played with the config files at all, but I open the Service 
Manager and turn on atalk (afpd doesn't show up here), and then restart 
the computer.  I've set netatalk to runlevels 2,3,4,5 (following the 
directions from mascarasnake's reply) and make sure atalk starts at boot.
Now I try connecting by going to Network in the Finder on my PB, the 
eMac (named Wired_Wench) shows up.  But if I try to connect, it gives 
this error message:

Connection failed
This file server is running  on your machine.  Please access  the 
volumes and files locally.

But if I do a CMD+K and type in the ip (either just 192.168.123.158, or 
with afp://) I get this error:

Connection Failed
No response from server. Please try again.


I've also tried setting up extra accounts on both machines and tried 
connecting with those, but to no avail.  Same errors occur.

Is there something I need to do in OSX to have it send clear text 
passwords?  Cuz I know that by default netatalk works with clear text 
but I'm not sure what I'd do in OSX.

I hope this helps, if you need any more info let me know.  I really 
wanna be able to get this working, especially now that I'm having 
probs.  It's laughing at me, and I want to be the one with the last laugh.






Eric Dunbar wrote:

>On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 14:57:22 -0500, Brogan Ross <broganross at mac.com> wrote:
>  
>
>>Yeah it's not a yum problem I'm having, it's a netatalk problem.  And
>>yes you are correct I do add sudo before yum install netatalk.
>>
>>the problem I'm having is that when I try connect from my PB with OSX to
>>my eMac with YDL, I get the error message saying that the files and
>>volumes I want on my local drive.
>>    
>>
>
>Can you provide us with the FULL text of the error message from your
>OS X end and describe what the IP addresses are for both machines?
>Perhaps someone might have insight into your problem with a few more
>details.
>
>One thought I had... are you ABSOLUTELY sure that you're logging into
>your YDL Mac, and not locally to your OS X Mac? How are you logging
>into your YDL Mac? Do you command-K (in Finder) and then type
>afp://192.168.0.100 or something to that effect? Also, are you sure
>that you're typing the IP for the server? Be explicit and don't skimp
>on details. It's hard to trouble-shoot a problem without knowing
>and/or seeing everything.
>
>PS Also, you may want to create an account on your YDL machine that
>doesn't exist on your OS X machine. That way you can try to login to
>something that's known to be unique to your YDL machine (for
>trouble-shooting purposes).
>
>PSS You may also want to make sure that your OS X machine is loggin in
>with "clear text password" enabled. YDL/netatalk can't handle
>encrypted passwords.
>
>Eric.
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