Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1998 13:59:14 -0700 (PDT) From: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com> To: Matt White <s012mrw@discover.wright.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Samba and NetaTalk Snafu? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95.980409135650.20731D-100000@current1.whistle.com> In-Reply-To: <199804091211.IAA01174@newton.bunnynet.org>
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you say "very few patches"... how about the mandatory appletalk patches in the 2.2.5 ERRATA.TXT file from the ftp site? also.. sounds like your smbd or nmbd is doing a name lookup on something external to your site.. check your config file for bad hostnames or similar. On Thu, 9 Apr 1998, Matt White wrote: > I have had a weird problem for the past few months since moving my server > from Linux to FreeBSD. > > Clients can only connect via Samba when our PPP connection to the > Internet is up. If the PPP connection is not up when the clients attempt > to connect to the server the attempt will simply time out after a few > minutes with the connection never being made. However, as soon as I bring > up the PPP connection, clients can connect almost instantly without > problems. > > This was annoying, but we knew how to work around it so it hasn't been > much of a problem. > > However, now we're trying to allow Macintosh clients to connect to the > server as well. The server will appear in the Chooser (under both > AppleShare for file sharing and LaserWriter 8 for it's printer), but when > the clients attempt to connect once again the connection times out and > nothing is done. However, this time, the problem cannot be solved by > bringing up the PPP connection. > > At boot time the server "freezes" at the netatalk initialization stage, > and eventually times out. (After about 30 seconds.) When afpd tries to > fire up it dies with the following error: > > Apr 9 07:49:10 newton afpd[1094]: Can't register newton:AFPServer@* > > ...and when papd attempts to start up I get this error: > > Apr 9 08:02:10 newton papd[1108]: can't register newton:LaserWriter@* > > Some system information: > > - Pentium 166 > - 32MB RAM > - FreeBSD 2.2.5 from the November 1997 CD's (very few patches have been > installed) > - NE2000 NIC > > Our network is setup in the 10.3.2.0/24 range. TCP/IP will always work in > and out of the server. > > The server is doing PPP aliasing. (Which is where I think the problem may > ultimately lie.) > > Any suggestions, comments, jabs? =) > > -- > Matt White > s012mrw@discover.wright.edu > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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