Subject: Re: [netatalk-admins] OS 8.5+ and copying applications to shared filesystems
From: sam@shadow.org
Date: Tue Aug 17 1999 - 14:58:41 EDT
This happens when I set the afpd server to both -noddp and
-notcp. The error occurs with SimpleText (about 120k) and Netscape
Communicator (about 10 Megs).
We have some site-specific patches to enable root to do
root things on the server, and it appears that when the client has
root privledges, copying the application works flawlessly. On the
assumption that my patches were making bad things happen, I replaced
our afpd with the "stock" pre-asun afpd and noticed the same problems.
Another member of this list has also seen similar difficulties.
Again, similar simptoms have been seen in both 8.5 and 8.6.
I'm also unsure whether or not a router is involved -- both machines
are on switched ports on the same subnet. It would seem to me that
the router would never get into the conversation at all, but I'm not
a network engineer.
/* Sam */
On Tue, Aug 17, 1999 at 08:31:28AM -0500, Brian Bergstrand wrote:
> -50 and -50## are not the same error(s). -50 is 'paramErr' and -50##
> are all AppleTalk
> errors. pararmErr is returned from a function when one of the
> parameters is invalid. For instance if a function expects a valid
> pointer, but it receives a NULL instead it will return
> a paramErr.
>
> As for why you are getting the error, I can't say for sure. Does it
> happen over both IP and ATALK? Is the error dependant on the size of
> the file being copied? I know that 8.5 has trouble with routers
> (mainly CISCO) set to some mode that I forget the name of now.
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