Subject: Re: Multiple Netatalk servers
From: MATSUDA Hitoshi (hitoshi@mathit.co.jp)
Date: Mon Mar 26 2001 - 00:30:23 EST
Hello,
We fixed this problem. The line order of /etc/hosts was not basic reason.
There were misconfiguration between /etc/hosts, /etc/HOSTNAME and /etc
/sysconfig/network in two servers which have this problem.
After we fixed this problem, "hostid" returns each regal value.
Thank you for everyone.
MATSUDA Hitoshi
Mathit Communications,Inc
At 8:53 AM +0900 01.3.24, MATSUDA Hitoshi wrote:
>Hello,
>
>Thank you for your advice.
>We can't restart Netatalk services now, so I will try next week and
>inform its result later.
>
>Thank you,
>
>MATSUDA Hitoshi
>Mathit Communications,Inc
>
>At 2:54 PM +0000 01.3.23, Basil Hussain wrote:
>>Hi,
>>
>>> I met strange problem.
>>
>>> When we try to mount Server-B after Server-D already be mounted, Maicntosh
>>> says that "Server-B is already mounted!". When we try to mount Server-D
>>> after Server-B already be mounted, Macintosh says "Server-D already
>>> mounted!". Other combinations has no trouble.
>>
>>This has been discussed on the list before and a solution was found. In
>>fact, I suffered from the same problem myself not so long ago. Anyway, I
>>enclose at the end of this message the solution repeated to me then.
>>
>>To put it easily, though, all you need to do is change your /etc/hosts file
>>from this:
>>
>>127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.localdomain
>>192.168.1.1 yourhost.domain.com yourhost
>>
>>To this:
>>
>>192.168.1.1 yourhost.domain.com yourhost
>>127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.localdomain
>>
>>It needs re-arranging so that the line with the normal IP address
>>(192.168.1.1 in the example) of your server is the first line and the
>>loopback address (127.0.0.1) is below.
>>
>>Regards,
>>
>>------------------------------------------------
>>Basil Hussain (basil.hussain@specialreserve.net)
>>
>>
>>------------------------------------------------------------
>>From: "Joe Rhodes" <joe_b_rhodes@hotmail.com>
>>Subject: Two servers --Solved!!!
>>
>> For the sake of someone searching through the archives for
>>this at a latter date, here's a synopsis of the problem:
>> You have two netatalk servers (RedHat Linux Based--Intel or
>>LinuxPPC) running on the same network. They have different names,
>>and each show up in the chooser seperately. However, when you log
>>into one, the client mac sees the other as the same server as the
>>first one you logged onto--and vice versa.
>>
>> Getting both servers to be recognized as different servers
>>involved getting them to have unique server signatures. As was
>>pointed out to me, this is directly affected by the value returned by
>>the hostid command. For instance, my results from hostid were 17f00.
>>Looking at that, 7f is hex for 127.
>>
>> As it turns out, the hostid is based off your server name and
>>whatever that server name has for an address in /etc/hosts. For
>>instance, in the file /etc/HOSTNAME my test server is called
>>LittleLinux. In /etc/hosts I MUST have a line that goes something
>>like this:
>> 192.168.0.1 LittleLinux LittleLinux.localdomain
>>
>> You can (and probably should, but I don't know, I'm no expert) have
>>the default line of
>> 127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.localdomain
>> in there. As long as the machine can find a match to what it thinks
>>is the hostname, it will hash that IP address as the hostid, and
>>consequently, as the Server Signature. By testing, I found it makes
>>no difference what order the lines appear.
>>
>> If you do not have a line that matches, the machine will use
>>the "localhost" entry. I ended up with two servers both hashing
>>127.0.0.1 as a hostid.
>>
>> The number here does not HAVE to be the correct IP address. (For
>>instance, on my test machine, I run as a DHCP client, but I just left
>>that 192.168 address there for grins.) If you do have the correct
>>address there, then it will be transmitted to your client, and if the
>>client will support it, it will connect via TCP/IP. (Unless you
>>specify otherwise in your config file.)
>>
>> I need to make sure and give a big THANK YOU to all the people that
>>helped me figure this one out. It's really cool how quickly you all
>>responded with suggestions even though I'm sure you're all pretty
>>busy with your own problems.
>>
>> Does anyone know if there is an FAQ-O-Matic that this should go in?
>>Perhaps a centrally kept FAQ somewhere? Or do we just rely on the
>>e-mail archive searches for this? (Which is primarily what I've been
>>using.)
>>
>> Thanks again everyone!
>>
>> -Joe Rhodes
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