Re: problem mounting two servers

Subject: Re: problem mounting two servers
From: Thomas Schierle (ts@visual-s.de)
Date: Mon Sep 10 2001 - 15:04:26 EDT

The problem has been discussed more than a year ago, I believe.
Unfortunately I didn't find the thread in my mail archives.

If memory doesn't fail, the solution was to change the order of appearance
of the localhost entry and the servers real IP within the hosts file.
Real IP has to be the first entry.

Background (from memory): a netatalk server creates some kind of
unique ID at (its first?) startup, and that ID is based on its IP.
If that ID is based on the localhost IP, it of cause isn't unique.

-Thomas

On 2001-09-10 17:44 +0200, James Litwin wrote:

> Ya , I have seen it before ..... not to sure what caused the problem ... only
> way that I could solve the problem was to rebuild the server from scratch ....
> then everything worked ........
>
> charlie wood wrote:
>
>> I've got two separate servers, each have unique network.node addresses. For
>> illustrative purposes, we'll call one Bob and the other Sally (names changed
>> to protect the innocent). Whenever one of Bob's volumes are mounted on the
>> client desktop, and then an attempt is made by that client to connect to
>> Sally, via the Chooser, instead of Sally's login dialog, the "already
>> connected to "Bob"" dialog comes up. Selecting "OK" takes the user to Bob's
>> volumes list. The only way to actually connect to Sally, under these
>> circumstances, is to either unmount all of Bob's volumes, or make the
>> connection to Sally via afp (clicking the IP Address button in the Chooser
>> window, typing in the IP address, etc.).
>> [ ... ] 

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