Netatalk/Hostname Problem

Jameson

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Jul 10, 2005, 9:57:13 AM7/10/05

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Hey Everyone:

I tries posting this message to an old Mac group, but that was probably
the wrong place to post it. I may have better luck here.

I have a SuSE Linux 9.1 Pro server running a recent version of Netatalk

(exact number unknown). My goal is to be able to connect to a shared
volume from a Mac OS X 10.4 computer.

>From my Mac, I can connect to the server by using its IP address
(afp://192.168.1.100) or by browsing to it under "Network". The problem

is that I can't connect by just typing in the hostname (afp://singray).

When I do this, it starts to look it up, but eventually says that the
server does not exist.

AppleTalk is turned on on my Mac OS X machine, and the "aecho" command
seems to find the server with no problem.

Any ideas? Thanks in advance for the help!

Rajko M.

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Jul 10, 2005, 11:44:42 AM7/10/05

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Jameson wrote:

I'm not sure how exactly Apple's OS X works, but some kind of name to IP
address translation has to be implemented. In BSD you have /etc/hosts file
that contains lines with IP addres to computer name translation and
optional alias field (that would be "singray" in your case).

It is probably better to mount shares using NFS, and have them incorporated
in OS X computer file system without special treatment using afs: etc.

This link contains few related articles:
http://search.info.apple.com/?q=OS+X+NFS+mount&search=Go&lr=lang_en&search=Go

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Regards,
Rajko.

Phil

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Jul 10, 2005, 1:21:29 PM7/10/05

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Jameson wrote:

> I tries posting this message to an old Mac group, but that was probably
> the wrong place to post it. I may have better luck here.
>
> I have a SuSE Linux 9.1 Pro server running a recent version of Netatalk
>
> (exact number unknown). My goal is to be able to connect to a shared
> volume from a Mac OS X 10.4 computer.
>
>>From my Mac, I can connect to the server by using its IP address
> (afp://192.168.1.100) or by browsing to it under "Network". The problem
>
> is that I can't connect by just typing in the hostname (afp://singray).

Why not use NFS? This is easy to set up from the Mac.

nos...@nospam.done

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Jul 10, 2005, 5:08:54 PM7/10/05

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netatalk can run afp over IP, that's what you want. That's the only way
you want to run netatalk. Please read the docs and do some research on
this. i did this about a month ago.
From what I recall, you had to turn off appletalk so you only run afp.
I did some performance tests and afp is much faster than appletalk.
It's very easy to setup, just read the docs. I recall there were 2
files to modify, just a few lines.

Look on the apple support forums too!

Oskar

Lawrence D'Oliveiro

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Jul 11, 2005, 4:40:42 AM7/11/05

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In article <4228q2-...@anonymizer.com>, Phil <rot...@nospam.org>
wrote:

>Why not use NFS? This is easy to set up from the Mac.

NFS is, if anything, even less secure than AFP.

Phil

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Jul 11, 2005, 8:31:56 AM7/11/05

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Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

The OP didn't mention security as an issue. I use NFS for sharing between
several Linux machines and a Mac because we're on a small home network
behind a NAT router. Security simply doesn't matter.