Re: Continuing problems with netatalk / server disappearing from chooser


Subject: Re: Continuing problems with netatalk / server disappearing from chooser
From: Paul Krohn (pkrohn@daemonize.com)
Date: Tue Jun 26 2001 - 13:29:12 EDT


On Tuesday, June 26, 2001, at 02:20 AM, Bas van der Linden wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I'm having some quite irritating problems here:
>
> The server seems to disappear and reappear ramdomly from the chooser.
> Restarting seems to cure things sometimes, or this might just be my
> perception.
> I cannot figure out how this would be possible.

<snip>

> And atalkd.conf only shows 'eth0'.
>
> I can connect by entering the IPadress in the server at all times.
>
>
> If anyone has an idea of what I might try, I'd be really happy
> to hear it! :)

It seems there is nothing wrong with your afpd.conf setup. Are you seeing
the correct shares/directories once connected?

atalkd.conf should be populated by zone information and so on. Is there an
AppleTalk router on your network? what are the zone names and cable ranges?
  Are there multiple zones on one wire? That would certainly explain the
intermittent problems you are experiencing, if you haven't specified a
default zone. does nbplkup work?

Also, what network card are you using? AppleTalk makes extensive use of
multicasts, and some cards/drivers don't handle this well and require
kernel options to work correctly with AppleTalk. I seem to remember the
Intel EtherExpress being particularly problematic.



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