Netatalk

[R. McFarlane]

At 07:31 PM 3/29/2005, Brogan Ross, had this to say :

>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.

         I've had this before too!

>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.

         As well as this!

>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.


         Not sure how I resolved it and I have yet to test my PB 3400c YDL 
(3.0.1) laptop. However, my P100 running RHL 7.2 has no problems serving up 
AFP to my 10.3.8 B&W. I even have it configured for 2 servers (one users 
the other guests)! I will move my PB3400c YDL laptop onto my wired network 
and test it out for you and reply back.


Sincerely,

R. McFarlane

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