Subject: [netatalk-admins] Netatalk services appear in only one zone.

From: "Eddie Irvine" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 25 Mar 1998 19:26:55 +1000

Hi!

Netatalk is running on a FreeBSD box with two ethernet interfaces.
One goes to a LAN in room 1 (zone "ROOM1"), the other interface goes to a
LAN
in room 2 (zone "ROOM2").

I have managed to set up atalkd.conf so that it seeds the zones with the
names
above, and routing between zones seems to work. Thus, a mac in "ROOM2"
can see a mac in "ROOM1". So far so good.

The trouble is, the netatalk services (AppleShare and Print Spooling) only
seem to
register in the first zone - "ROOM1".  The chooser shows nothing to choose
in zone
"ROOM2", even when I am on a mac in "ROOM2".

1    Is this actually a big deal? I can connect a computer in ROOM2 to
netatalk simply by
      selecting the zone "ROOM1" in the chooser. Will computers in ROOM2
slow down the LAN for
      computers in ROOM1 ?

2    I must be missing something here! The netatalk FAQ-Matic alludes to
this problem
      but gives no firm examples. They talk about a file called "rc.atalk" .
Is this just the
      startup script called at boot time that Linux uses?

Thanks in advance. Any working examples appreciated.

Eddie.

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From: "Eddie Irvine" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 25 Mar 1998 19:34:56 +1000