I recall reading something somewhere (hate to contribute to
vague-assumptions, but it might be relevant) that netatalk makes
"agressive" use of multicasting in register nbp names, and for
the Appletalk protocol. I recall having an SMC card that wouldn't see my
Laserwriter II (no other Macs on the network), so I swapped in a 3Com and
it worked. I can only presume that SMC cards have poor/non-functional
multicasting, that somehow breaks or hobbles netatalk.
David Lancaster (506) 454-2167
690 Gregg Ct. Upper Apartment
Fredericton, NB Canada E3B 4H5
[EMAIL PROTECTED] "Don't anthropomorphize computers, they hate that."
On Fri, 2 Jun 2000, Matthew Reilly wrote:
> Thanks Jason,
>
> Yes, I can ping the Macs from the server but I cannot access the
> Appletalk volume via the IP address from the Macs. I don't have
> Appletalk IP enabled on the server (no afpd.conf).
>
> I just can't understand why it worked before but now won't work
> with the new NIC.
>
> Matthew
>
>
> >Hi Matthew!
> >
> >Can you see the server if you use the IP address? Can you ping
> each of the
> >Macs from the server?
> >
> >Cheers,
> >Jason.
> >
> >> From: Matthew Reilly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >> Date: Fri, 02 Jun 2000 09:01:06 -0400
> >> To: Netatalk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >> Subject: Netatalk up but invisible to Macs
> >> Resent-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >> Resent-Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2000 09:14:13 -0400 (EDT)
> >>
> >> I'm having a problem with my Netatalk setup after switching
> ethernet cards.
> >> I'm running netatalk-19990130 NetBSD/macppc on a Supermac
> C500. I previously
> >> had two Dayna (DEC based cards) and I just switched one to a
> SMC card. The
> >> setup was running fine before I made the switch. The Dayna
> card I pulled
> >> handled the Netatalk interface on my internal network. I
> changed the
> >> atalkd.conf to reflect the new interface name.
> >>
> >> When I boot the Netatalk daemons start up with no messages
> and there are no
> >> messages in the syslog. If I do a nbplkup I get:
> >>
> >> mojo:AFPServer 65280.20:128
> >> mojo:netatalk 65280.20:4
> >> mojo:Workstation 65280.20:4
> >> AXIS37CB89_CFG:LaserWriter 65384.224:129
> >> Stylus_740:EPSONLQ2 65384.224:128
> >>
> >> The bottom two entries are for my Axis print server on my
> Stylus 740. The
> >> strange thing is that my Mac doesn't show up here and the
> Netatalk server
> >> doesn't show up in the Mac's chooser. I've tried rebooting
> after removing
> >> the adress and network info in atalkd.conf (leaving only the
> interface name)
> >> but it doesn't make any difference.
> >>
> >> Any ideas?
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >>
> >> Matthew Reill
>
>
