Re: Problem with netatalk-1.5pre2-6 on Mandrake 8.0 (was: RH 7.1)


Subject: Re: Problem with netatalk-1.5pre2-6 on Mandrake 8.0 (was: RH 7.1)
From: Carsten Neumann (deltor@snafu.de)
Date: Wed May 16 2001 - 14:12:05 EDT


On Wed, 16 May 2001, Claus Atzenbeck wrote:
> On Wed, 16 May 2001, Olaf Hering wrote:
>
> > daemon picks your atalkd and launch it in the background. Then the next
> > service is started, which depends on atalkd . atalkd is not yet ready
> > and you get these error messages.
> > just remove "daemon".
>
> Thanks, Olaf, but it is still the same result. I have removed any word
> "daemon" in /etc/rc.d/init.d/atalk ans I also was adding
> "alias net-pf-5 appletalk" to module.conf (thanks to Craig), but:
>
> *****
> [root@thor init.d]# ./atalk stop
> Can't unregister thor:Workstation@* [FEHLER]
> Can't unregister thor:netatalk@*
> [ OK ]
> [root@thor init.d]# ./atalk start
> Starting AppleTalk services: nbp_rgstr: Connection timed out
> Can't register thor:Workstation@*
> nbp_rgstr: Connection timed out
> Can't register thor:netatalk@*
> *****
>
> Any idea left??
>
> Thanks a lot...
> Claus

You probably have to put your network interface (ethernet?) into promiscuous mode
before starting appletalk.
E.g.: "ifconfig eth0 promisc"

HTH

Kind regards

        Carsten



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