Subject: Re: Newbie FreeBSD & Netatalk question
From: Peter Risdon (peter@circlesquared.com)
Date: Thu May 17 2001 - 12:13:47 EDT
I had this problem and was helped by some responses here. The can't
assign address errors seem characteristic of incorrect interface
configuration in /usr/local/etc/atalkd.conf. If you can comment out the
interface the macs don't talk with, if your network topography allows
that, then it might fix the prob. At the same time, the address range
assigned to the interface has to include addresses papd can use. If the
prob persists, copy your atalkd.conf file in a mail and it will be
easier to see if there are any obvious issues there.
James Pione wrote:
>
> Hi All.
> I'm a new FreeBSD administrator, and I have to make the UNIX box
> do apple file serving for a whole bunch of macs. Unfortunately, I haven't
> had any success getting Netatalk working. I'm running FreeBSD release 4.2
> on a Pentium 166mhz Toshiba Infinia 7160, with some 32 megs RAM and a 1.6
> gig HD. I also have two network cards on the machine, with bridging
> support enabled in the kernel. I enabled netatalk support in the kernel,
> as per instructions, and installed netatalk 1.4b2 from the FreeBSD ports
> collection. The whole installation process seemed to go smoothly, but I get a
> whole lot of error messages at startup, when the computer tries to
> initialize netatalk. Here's what it looks like:
>
> Local package initialization: netatalk280.161: attribute not found.
> bind: Can't assign requested address
> bind: Can't assign requested address
> May 17 11:26:01 un papd[238]: atp_open: Can't assign requested address
> May 17 11:26:01 un afpd[240]: main: atp_open: Can't assign requested
> address.
>
> After looking through the archive of this mailing list, I saw a that a few
> people who were using FreeBSD and netatalk with two network cards were
> having what looked like similar problems. I tried some of the fixes
> that had been suggested to them, but unfortunately had no luck. Anyway,
> thanks in advance for any ideas people have.
>
> Thanks.
> James Pione
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