Subject: [netatalk-admins] asun 2.1.2-2 on FreeBSD 2.2.6 and MacOS 8.5.1

From: Mike Holling <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:41:32 -0800 (PST)

I administer a small heterogenous LAN.  The main server is a PC running
FreeBSD 2.2.6, with samba and netatalk among other things.  One of the
Macs is a PowerMac 7600/132 upgraded to MacOS 8.5.1.  The users complained
that this box would occassionally drop its connection to the PC, which had
been running asun 2.1.0.  I upgraded to 2.1.2-2, which has made things
worse.  The client box locks up, and the PC has already run out of network
buffers, requiring a reboot.

Is anyone using asun successfully with MacOS 8.5.1?  If so, I'll start
digging thru the FreeBSD archives to see if there's still a known problem
with the appletalk code...

- Mike

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From: "L. F." <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1999 21:30:59 -0800 (PST)

I'm using netatalk+asun with OS 8.5.1 on an iMac and a PowerBase 200 with
no troubles. 

Sorry chap,
L. Fuller

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From: Brian Reid <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 99 21:33:23 -0800

I see this problem too, and I've been waiting for somebody else to
mention it. There are certain files on my server that, if the Mac tries
to copy the file, it will fail every time. Here "fail" means that the
server icon vanishes from the Mac and there is an error message saying
"read error". I'm running FreeBSD 2.2.7 and asun 2.1.2-2

It happened just as often on MacOS 8.1; I don't think this is a MacOS
problem.

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From: Brian Reid <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 99 05:40:02 -0800

This is my biggest problem with Netatalk. I've only noticed it since I
upgraded to 8.1.

The Mac goes to copy a file, and gets this error message:

File 'Growing Cubes': can't read, error -1072 (AppleTalk: connection closed)

The volume then disappears from the desktop. I can make this happen any
time I want, just by trying to read this file (or a hundred others).
All I have to do to find them is to try to use Retrospect to copy the
volume, and it bombson the first one, but you can get the same effect
by trying to drag the file to another disk.

The file looks like this on the Unix system:

-rwxrwxr-x  1 System  mac  311424 Dec  2  1995 Growing Cubes*

and the AppleDouble looks like this.

6# od -b 'Growing Cubes'
0000000  000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000
0000020  000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 005 000 000 000 002 000 000
0000040  002 115 000 000 001 111 000 000 000 003 000 000 000 126 000 000
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0000100  000 007 000 000 002 035 000 000 000 020 000 000 000 011 000 000
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0000140  142 145 163 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000
0000160  000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000
*
0001020  000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 060 276 144
0001040  211 060 300 245 244 063 110 021 322 000 000 000 000 012 127 120
0001060  061 012 032 127 120 001 000 377 377 377 377 000 000 000 000 000
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