Re: [netatalk-admins] how to force the zone of afpd


Subject: Re: [netatalk-admins] how to force the zone of afpd
From: Andrew Morgan (morgan@orst.edu)
Date: Fri Nov 12 1999 - 11:43:48 EST


On Fri, 12 Nov 1999, Jean Richelle wrote:

> The afpd server shows up in a given zone that is not the one we use for
> the Mac in our group. How to change it ?
> I tried editing the atalkd.conf leaving only the desired target zone, but
> when atalkd is restarted it recreates automatically the file with other
> zones and the desired one in third position. I tried also stoping afpd
> and relaunching it withe "-n ulb.sc.ucmb" but then the afpd server
> appears as "ulb.sc.ucmb" in the other zone ! Note that I am running my
> server in order to have AppleShareIP services.

You were close to right. Use afpd with "-n @other_zone". From the
nbp_name man page:

       The argument of afpd(8)'s -n option is parsed with
       nbp_name(). The default value of obj is the first compo-
       nent of the machine's hostname (as returned by gethostby-
       name(3)). The default value of type is ``AFPServer'', and
       of zone is ``*'', the default zone. To cause afpd to reg-
       ister itself in some zone other than the default, one
       would invoke it as

              afpd -n @some-other-zone

       obj and type would retain their default values.

Enjoy...

        Andy



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