Topic: AppleTalk (netatalk)

[Jeff Graystone]

I have just finished upgrading my server:

netatalk-1.5.3.1-4
e-smith-netatalk-1.8.1-04

and everything looks good in my logs:

Nov 18 23:43:39 testbox atalkd[1500]: zip_getnetinfo for eth0
Nov 18 23:43:49 testbox atalkd[1500]: config for no router
Nov 18 23:43:50 testbox atalkd[1500]: ready 0/0/0
Nov 18 23:43:50 testbox atalk: atalkd startup succeeded
Nov 18 23:44:03 testbox atalk: papd startup succeeded
Nov 18 23:44:03 testbox papd[1609]: restart (1.5.3.1)
Nov 18 23:44:03 testbox atalk: afpd startup succeeded
Nov 18 23:44:09 testbox afpd[1619]: testbox:AFPServer@* started on 65280.221:254 (1.5.3.1)
Nov 18 23:44:09 testbox afpd[1619]: ASIP started on 192.168.2.1:548(2) (1.5.3.1)
Nov 18 23:44:09 testbox afpd[1619]: uam: loading (/usr/lib/uams_clrtxt.so)
Nov 18 23:44:09 testbox afpd[1619]: uam: uams_clrtxt.so loaded
Nov 18 23:44:09 testbox afpd[1619]: uam: loading (/usr/lib/uams_dhx.so)
Nov 18 23:44:09 testbox afpd[1619]: uam: uams_dhx.so loaded
Nov 18 23:44:09 testbox afpd[1619]: uam: "DHCAST128" available
Nov 18 23:44:09 testbox afpd[1619]: uam: "Cleartxt Passwrd" available

But I am still getting "-50" errors when I connect with OS/X.

Any ideas?

[robert]

What exactly are you trying to do when you get these errors. Is the error just -50, or do you get a description of the problem as well. Do any error messages appear in the server log when you get these -50 errors on your mac? What is the severity of this error? Does it mean you cannot connect to apple shares at all?

[Jeff Graystone]

See here:

http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=615292&group_id=8642&atid=108642

"We get a -50 error when we try to copy large numbers of files from a client running MacOS X to a netatalk server running 1.5.3"

I have upgraded netatalk to 1.5.5 (hopefully this will fix these issues).

[James Douglas]

use sharity or dave andshut off appletalk altogether ??? i know its not he answer youre looking for but an alternative maybe? youll probably see a network performance boost...

[Michael Maggard]

Jeff Graystone wrote:

> I have just finished upgrading my server:



> But I am still getting "-50" errors when I connect with OS/X.
>
> Any ideas?

From MacWindows.com, an excellent site for connecting Macs to Windows and more http://www.macwindows.com/:

> Netatalk 1.6.0, AFP server for Unix, adds OS X support. December 4, 2002 --
> The Netatalk development team has released version 1.6.0 of the Netatalk File
> Sharing suite (free, open source), a collection of Unix server programs and
> utilities that provide AFP (AppleShare-compatible) file sharing service. Netatalk
> also includes a PAP print server for AppleTalk. New in this version is improved
> compatibility with Mac OS X (including long file name support) and with
> Photoshop and QuarkXPress. Netatalk is available for FreeBSD, various Linux
> builds, Solaris, and Tru64.

Embedded in the report is a URL to http://sourceforge.net/projects/netatalk/