Re: netatalk, ubuntu, and netboot

[Ivan X <ivanxqz@yahoo.com>]

On 09/07/2010 01:16 AM, Ivan X wrote:
>> [I can get my IIe with Workstation Card to start from the Appleshare client
disk to access a netatalk shared volume on Ubuntu Linux. However, I can't get
netboot working: it reads the boot blocks and runs the client successfully, and
seems to authenticate logon correctly, but then I get an error following logon:
"Your startup configuration has not been set up properly. Contact the network
administrator."]

On 9/7/10 9:15 PM, in article Y7mdnYqQiIEwfhvRnZ2dnUVZ_hGdnZ2d@giganews.com,
"Steven Hirsch" <snhirsch@gmail.com> wrote:

> Why don't you grab the package (binary or source) from the a2 google group?
> The Ubuntu source package ought to build without any problems.

Oh, hi, Steven! Thanks for responding.

I ran into several hiccups (like a libdb-4.2 dependency) trying to use your
binary or source under Ubuntu 10.04, so before trying to figure those out, I
figured I'd first try to exactly replicate what you had working. So I
installed Ubuntu 6.06, grabbed your modified netatalk 2.0.3 from the google
group, and I installed the .deb package (after first installing its various
dependency packages -- cracklib, libssl-dev, libdb4.2-dev, and others). I
then used your configuration files (I even created a user called "hirsch"
just for grins), and put Marsha's system startup files in /home/A2BOOT.

The result? Exactly the same: "Your startup configuration has not been set
up properly. Contact the network administrator."

Weird. Network boot, AppleShare client launch, and logon authentication is
clearly succeeding both in my original setup, and the one designed to mimic
yours. But then the software seems to expect something from the server it's
not getting. I assume the problem must lie in the A2BOOT folder, but I've
tried everything I can think of in there. Do you know which path/file the
server tells the software to run upon login? I'm assuming
/SHARENAME/BASIC.SYSTEM, but it ain't happening. I trawled around the source
but couldn't find anything obvious at first pass. Also, /var/log/syslog
doesn't reveal anything interesting, though I may need to rebuild with
--enable-debug (and then would there be anything else I need to do?)

Any thoughts would be much appreciated.


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