[GLLUG] Re: Anybody have experience with NETATALK

[David D]

Sorry did not meant to send this email without asking if anyone has any
suggestions?

Thanks
David
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David D" <keyzs4 at ameritech.net>
To: <linux-user at egr.msu.edu>
Sent: Monday, September 26, 2005 8:29 AM
Subject: Anybody have experience with NETATALK


> We have a server that does not want to play nice with our MAC OS 9
machines.
>
> I will let a coworker explain:
> Our Art Department has been accessing their Macintosh files on a dedicated
> Linux server for several weeks without any problems. They are currently
> using OS9 and therefore need to connect using Appletalk (Netatalk). The
> users are all logging in to the server using the same userid of artdept
and
> the same password. Originally their data was moved off a Windows server
and
> placed in the /home folder of the user artdept. (Not my choice. I wanted
to
> place the data in a /home/data share. Once the Art Dept is migrated to OSX
> in the next couple of weeks we will move the data to that location. In the
> meantime everyone logs in as artdept to get to that user's home folder and
> their data.)
>
>
> Beginning on Wednesday of this week several users in that department
started
> experiencing the following problem. They could log in to the Linux server,
> but couldn't see any files and their Macintosh said there were zero
objects.
> Other users who were logged in at the same time had no problem seeing the
> files. The only temporary fix we could come up with was to get everyone
> logged off, stop Atalk, run the following ( find /home -regex
> '.*AppleDB/\(.*db\|__db.*\)' -exec rm '{}' ';' ) and then start Atalk.
Users
> can then access their files for a while, but after a short period of time
> the problem begins to appear again.
>
>
> In the /var/log/messages file we keep getting the following errors:
>
>
> CNID DB initialized using Sleepycat Software: Berkeley DB 4.2.52: (June
30,
> 2004)
>
> linux afpd[12735]: adddir: Incorrect parameters passed to cnid_add
>
> We have given the /home/artdept/.Apple.DB file full access rights for
owner,
> group and others.
>
> Following is the text from the /etc/netatalk/netatalk.conf file :
>
> # Appletalk configuration
> # Change this to increase the maximum number of clients that can connect:
> AFPD_MAX_CLIENTS=50
>
> # Change this to set the machine's atalk name and zone.
> # NOTE: if your zone has spaces in it, you're better off specifying
> # it in afpd.conf
> #ATALK_ZONE=@zone
> ATALK_NAME=`echo ${HOSTNAME}|cut -d. -f1`
>
> # specify this if you don't want guest, clrtxt, and dhx
> # available options: uams_guest.so, uams_clrtxt.so, uams_dhx.so,
> # uams_randnum.so
> #AFPD_UAMLIST="-U uams_clrtxt.so,uams_randnum.so"
>
> # Change this to set the id of the guest user
> AFPD_GUEST=nobody
>
> # Set which daemons to run (papd is dependent upon atalkd):
> ATALKD_RUN=yes
> PAPD_RUN=yes
> AFPD_RUN=yes
> TIMELORD_RUN=no
>
> # Control whether the daemons are started in the background
> ATALK_BGROUND=yes
>
>