Subject: [netatalk-admins] PROBLEM SOLVED: Re: Serving HFS volumes and 2.2 kernel (fwd)
From: Brandon Warren (bwarren@u.washington.edu)
Date: Mon Oct 04 1999 - 17:23:23 EDT
I have solved the problem I was having. I rebuilt netatalk, and
this time I did not enable the sendfile() call (I did not add
-DSENDFILE_FLAVOR_LINUX to the DEFS line in sys/linux/Makefile).
Brandon
On Tue, 21 Sep 1999, Brandon Warren wrote:
> I'm in the process of setting up a server running Mandrake 6.0
> (similar to Red Hat 6.0). I'm using Red Hat's 2.2.5-22 kernel
> and netatalk-1.4b2+asun2.1.3.
>
> I have an optical drive (uses 650 MB PD disks) connected to
> the SCSI bus. I can put in a Mac formatted PD disk, mount
> it, and read it. I can copy it to my ext2 partition,
> go to a Mac, connect via chooser, and read the copy
> from the ext2 partition.
>
> The problem is when I try to access the PD disk over the
> network from a Mac. I can copy many files just fine, but
> some files cause the Mac to say that there is a disk error
> and then the Mac says that the server's connection has unexpectedly
> closed down. It seems that files with a resource fork but
> no data fork are more likely to do this.
>
> I have a Red Hat 5.2 system (2.0.36 kernel) with the same
> setup, and it does not have this problem.
>
> Any ideas? Are any other kernel 2.2 users able to access an HFS volume
> from a Mac? Would Samba/Dave be more reliable?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Brandon
>
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