I have solved the problem I was having. I rebuilt netatalk, and this time I did not enable the sendfile() call (I did not add -DSENDFILE_FLAVOR_LINUX to the DEFS line in sys/linux/Makefile). Brandon On Tue, 21 Sep 1999, Brandon Warren wrote: > I'm in the process of setting up a server running Mandrake 6.0 > (similar to Red Hat 6.0). I'm using Red Hat's 2.2.5-22 kernel > and netatalk-1.4b2+asun2.1.3. > > I have an optical drive (uses 650 MB PD disks) connected to > the SCSI bus. I can put in a Mac formatted PD disk, mount > it, and read it. I can copy it to my ext2 partition, > go to a Mac, connect via chooser, and read the copy > from the ext2 partition. > > The problem is when I try to access the PD disk over the > network from a Mac. I can copy many files just fine, but > some files cause the Mac to say that there is a disk error > and then the Mac says that the server's connection has unexpectedly > closed down. It seems that files with a resource fork but > no data fork are more likely to do this. > > I have a Red Hat 5.2 system (2.0.36 kernel) with the same > setup, and it does not have this problem. > > Any ideas? Are any other kernel 2.2 users able to access an HFS volume > from a Mac? Would Samba/Dave be more reliable? > > Thanks, > > Brandon >
