Re: Continuing problems with netatalk / server disappearing from chooser


Subject: Re: Continuing problems with netatalk / server disappearing from chooser
From: Bas van der Linden (bas@mike.amaze.nl)
Date: Tue Jun 26 2001 - 19:46:56 EDT


On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 10:29:12AM -0700, Paul Krohn wrote:
>
> 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.

<snip>

> > And atalkd.conf only shows 'eth0'.
> It seems there is nothing wrong with your afpd.conf setup. Are you seeing
> the correct shares/directories once connected?

Everything does work, it's just that the server seems to be disappearing
from the chooser. All shares work exactly as expected.

> 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?

This is what nbplookup tells me (wich obviously works) :

                     SYS Server:AFPServer 65280.112:129
                     fileserver:AFPServer 65280.112:128
                     fileserver:netatalk 65280.112:4
                     fileserver:Workstation 65280.112:4
                       INTRANET:AFPServer 65365.74:128
              El90xnd1@INTRANET:Microsoftš Windows NTª Prt 4.00 65391.251:2
               Fiery_5750_Print:EFI-NamedAppQueues 65280.220:129
                Fiery_5750_Hold:EFI-NamedAppQueues 65280.220:130
                     Fiery_5750:EFI-AppQueue 65280.220:129
              Fiery_5750_Direct:EFI-NamedAppQueues 65280.220:128
                Fiery_5750_Hold:LaserWriter 65280.220:130
               Fiery_5750_Print:LaserWriter 65280.220:129
              Fiery_5750_Direct:LaserWriter 65280.220:128
Marco Klein & PartnersÕs Comput:AFPServer 65287.47:247
320EE7BA04D14CAF30433B09CEE8C5CC:NSCP 65287.47:248
Marco Klein & PartnersÕs Comput:ADServer 65287.47:251
Marco Klein & PartnersÕs Comput: Power Macintosh 65287.47:252
Marco Klein & PartnersÕs Comput:Workstation 65287.47:4
             9500 (Ex-Emmelien):PPCToolBox 65297.72:251
             9500 (Ex-Emmelien): Power Macintosh 65297.72:252
             9500 (Ex-Emmelien):Workstation 65297.72:4
                          dtp 4:PipeAqua 65413.175:249
                      Notify|af:PipeNotify 65413.175:239
                8600Õs Computer:ARA - Personal Server 65413.175:2
                8600Õs Computer:Multi-User Client 65413.175:48
                8600Õs Computer: Power Macintosh 65413.175:252
                8600Õs Computer:Workstation 65413.175:4
               LaserWriter 8500:LaserWriter 20.130:129
          LaserWriter 16/600 PS:LaserWriter 1.129:129

> 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?

I haven't defined a zone, what I understood is that appletalk adresses > 65000
or so are zoneless networks. But I'm getting the feeling I'm very wrong here.

> 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.

Urg. A Dell PowerEdge 2450 with of course the EtherExpress 10/100.

What would I be doing with such a card (except maybe throwing in a 3Com or so)?

Oh: One last thing, it was indeed 'noddp' instead of 'noudp', I mistyped this
as I was using two tera term sessions from a windows box at teh time of
writing, and retyping seemed a little faster than figuring out how to
copy and paste it :)

Thanks so far and looking forward to you replies!

Bas van der Linden

Oh and Paul: Sorry for my not paying attention with replying :)

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