At 14:23 Uhr -0700 04.05.2000, Mitch McNeel wrote:

>        How important is the atalkd daemon??

Without atalkd you've no AppleTalk protocol.
Services which require AppleTalk won't work without it.
Afpd (in the asun versions) support afp over ip Connections in which case you don't 
need atalkd (you will get an error message at startup, however).

>        My mac's are still able to connect to  the server
>via chooser-> Server IP Address (or server alias).  But
>server doesn't show up in the chooser via->appletalk.  Also,
>I've noticed that atalkd daemon doesn't spawn off children,
>but the afpd daemon does....

Without atalkd, selecting the server from a listof available ones in the chooser 
doesn't work.

Atalkd is a protocol daemon which sits on the network interfaces to do its Job. It 
doesn't need to fork.
Afpd forks for easier coding and handling of permissions.

:wq! PoC


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