Scott Harrison
Last updated: 10/26/2000
This file describes issues associated with accessing a LON-CAPA machine through apple shares. This allows Macintosh-type machines to mount portions of the LON-CAPA machine as file space (useful for an instructor).
These are the details for a prim and proper installation of Appleshares on LON-CAPA machines. (This also highlights the configuration commands, etc that must be gone through to set up a LON-CAPA machine.. another GREAT reason to have a solid interface to start with). There do not need to be any installation/update/reconfiguration interface parameters for this (other than perhaps "provide Appleshare's/do not provide Appleshare's). Appletalk on redhat linux 6.2, Sept 14, 2000, Scott Harrison 1. Download netatalk-1.4b2+asun2.1.3-8.i386.rpm from ftp://sunsite.ualberta.ca/pub/Mirror/Linux/redhat/ftp.redhat.com/contrib/libc6/i 386/ 2. rpm -Uvh netatalk-1.4b2+asun2.1.3-8.i386.rpm 3. pay attention to this message netatalk ################################################## warning: The DDP services appear to be present in /etc/services. warning: Please check them against services.atalk in the documentation. 4. ddp services exist fine in /etc/services 5. will rely on atalkd's automatic probing to discover appletalk interfaces and bind to them (automatically configures atalkd.conf) 6. run this command so that socket interfaces are provided /sbin/insmod appletalk 7. edit /etc/atalk/config to disallow papd services (no printing) and set ATALK_BGROUND to no since there is a bug in /etc/rc.d/init.d/atalk also set ATALK_NAME, but it can't have spaces it seems... currently, ATALK_NAME will be the LON-CAPA "internal" id (msul1, 103l1, msul2, etc 8. add "alias net-pf-5 appletalk" to conf.modules 9. run "depmod -a" 9. make sure /etc/hosts.allow will allow for appletalk service connections (ALL: ALL, or preferably; afpd: ALL) 10. run /etc/rc.d/init.d/atalk start