Netatalk: macs cannot see the bsd server

[Palle Girgensohn]

Citerar Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus at FreeBSD.org>:

> On Tue, 2004-03-30 at 23:50, Palle Girgensohn wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > i have a problem that I cannot quite understand: With netatalk running on a
> 
> > FreeBSD server, my Macs cannot see the server. AFP over IP works fine, but
> 
> > I have to enter the IP-address manually.
> > 
> > I tried with and without slpd (with default setting). nbplkup on the server
> 
> > only gives the BSD machine, no Mac.
> > 
> > The Mac is quite old, runs 8.6. Does this have anything to do with it?
> > 
> > Any ideas how this should be configured to work?
> 
> You'll really want to be running 9.2 on the Macs.  For SLP to work, slpd
> will have to start before afpd, and you'll have to have netatalk built
> with SLP support.  However, with 8.6, this won't buy you anything.  With
> 8.6, you must be running atalkd, and have AppleTalk properly configured
> in your kernel for the BSD server to show up in the Chooser.

Hi Joe,

Well, 9.2 is not an option in this case, for it is a powerbook 5300cs from 1995! ;-)

I have AppleTalk in the kernel: "options NETATALK". It seems though, that
appletalk does not work proberly. ifconfig show that is in there, and at the
right interface, but I cannot see the Mac or vice versa. They can communicate
fine with TCP/IP. Their AppleTalk (DDP?) address are 65280.117 and 65280.64,
should work IMO. But it does not.

/Palle