Subject: Re: Netatalk & OSX Compatability Problems
From: Matthew S. Krawitz (matthewk@ashai.net)
Date: Tue Mar 26 2002 - 19:42:19 MST
I had this problem... it's a noted bug in atalkd and afpd.
Have the server give you a welcome message...
I'm not sure how I did it (just did a quick search on the conf files,
etc... and nothing)... but I know this list solved the problem for
me. Search the archives. There's an easy fix... :)
- matthewk
On Tuesday, March 26, 2002, at 06:00 PM, Eric D. wrote:
> on 26/3/02 09:46, Michael Graham at mgraham@kiron-design.com wrote:
>
>> I'm currently running YDL 2.1 with netatalk-1.5pre2-6b.ppc.rpm. With
>> my OS9
>> clients, no problems. However, when I try to connect with my OSX
>> clients it
>> fails. I can connect, login, select a share but, when I try and mount
>> the
>> share this is the following error:
>>
>> "The file server 'LinuxServer' connection has unexpectedly closed
>> down."
> <snip>
>> Now the following line is the indicator of what the problem is but I
>> have no
>> idea how to solve the issue.
>> [ Mar 26 00:16:27 kiron-design afpd[21184]: dsi_stream_read(0): No
>> such file
>> or directory ]
>>
>> Anyone with this problem, or have ideas on how to fix???
>
> Could it be based on the fact that OS X only supports the latest
> flavour of
> AppleTalk & netatalk might be (?) based on the older (unsupported)
> protocol?
> (I'm guessing here on many counts (most importantly that netatalk is
> AppleTalk)) I used to receive the same error with OS X when I try to
> login
> to an old version of AppleShare (Novell 3.1). Now (X 10.1.3) the error
> message is less cryptic and actually states that the server is running
> an
> incompatible version (damn, if only I could remember what exactly it is
> OS X
> no longer supports (pre OT (Classic?) AppleTalk?)).
>
> Eric.
>
- matthewk (MSK2)
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