Re: [netatalk-admins] netatalk-1.4b2+asun2.1.3 released

1999-03-05 Thread Tom Fitzgerald

[netatalk-admins] Why don't binary encoded prints work?

1999-05-24 Thread Tom Fitzgerald
This has been driving me nuts Are there any explanations on the net of why binary-encoded print jobs, fed to non-Mac print spoolers, consistently don't work? I've been taking this as a matter of faith for years, but it's a pain trying to educate the users about this, and it's irritating that

UAMs not loading in pre2.1.4

2000-01-27 Thread Tom Fitzgerald
I'm trying to upgrade to pre-asun2.1.4-37b, but am getting the error messages syslogged: Jan 27 19:09:39 archetype.mit.edu afpd[27020]: uam_load(uams_guest.so): failed to load. Jan 27 19:09:39 archetype.mit.edu afpd[27020]: uam_load(uams_clrtxt.so): failed to load. Jan 27 19:21:05 archetype

Re: How to determine which Mac s are connected?

2000-03-23 Thread Tom Fitzgerald
> Patrik Schindler, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > >Indeed, a little goodie to keep track which users were connected from > >which machines would be nice, but I have no idea to keep track of > >AppleTalk users. > > > We use "ps". Doing a 'ps aux|grep afp' will give you a list of all the > afp

Re: CAP to netatalk migration tools

2000-04-26 Thread Tom Fitzgerald
> Finally, we had the impression from earlier experiments that it is not safe to > try to run two different Appletalk stacks off the same Solaris box, such as > having both CAP and netatalk running at once. Can anyone confirm if this > is truly verboten, or if there is a way to do it safely? I'm

Re: How do Mac access privileges map to Unix?

2000-07-03 Thread Tom Fitzgerald
> Can anyone help me with a pointer to a document or a short desciption of > - the exact mapping of access privileges on a Mac vs those on Unix (Linux) > and vice versa? > - the inheritance of access privileges when copying files and folders to a > shared disk. > - the inheritance of ownership of

Re: How do Mac access privileges map to Unix?

2000-07-05 Thread Tom Fitzgerald
> >- Afpd gives newly-created directories the same permissions bits as those > > of the parent directory, including the setgid bit. > > Is that the 't' shown when using ls -l ? No, the 's' in the 7th column, in something like drwxrwsr-x or drwxrws--- The 't' is the sticky bit, which is appro

Re: Can't get interfaces????

2000-07-25 Thread Tom Fitzgerald
> Yeah, this is a known issue with RedHat 6.2, since the boneheads at RedHat > felt it necessary to remove autoloading of the appletalk module as of 6.2 > (after all, saving these few bytes of extra configuration from a text file > makes all the difference). The Redhat people did exactly the righ

Re: Can't get interfaces????

2000-07-25 Thread Tom Fitzgerald
I should put a big IMHO at the beginning of all this... > You're missing a small point though. Appletalk is not a "service" that is > running all the time, and the appletalk kernel module is not loaded all > the time. But isn't it loaded automatically if the kernel receives Appletalk traffic?

Re: netatalk security vs. ftp, ssh

2000-07-28 Thread Tom Fitzgerald
> Hi, I am the systems administrator for my company and I have been trying to > find a way to shut down ftp access to our server. This would entail > finding an alternative file transfer protocol, such as some sort of GUI-scp > or a combination of netatalk and samba(?) or something else. > >