Re: Connecting Apple IIgs to Ethernet LAN

[<mink@smudge.com>]

In article <85d57a$k6k$1@nntp2.atl.mindspring.net>, Andy McFadden
<fadden@netcom.com> wrote:

> In article <070120000402420404%mink@smudge.com>,  <mink@smudge.com> wrote:
> >> Netatalk - I built it on Solaris, but it wouldn't let me work 
> >> as anything but guest (like NT did, too, so I guess it's some
> >> part of the protocol that they only halfway support).  I tried CAP
> >> first, then netatalk, then went back and got CAP to work.  
> >
> >You need to compile it with the correct security options. Under RH
> >Linux, PAM is necessary... I wouldn't know about Solaris.
> >
> >Set these in the Makefile, as per the instructions.
> 
> Curious.  I used the netatalk+asun from the Red Hat site on my Red Hat 6.0
> system, and I was also unable to work as anything but guest *using my IIgs*.
> Using a Quadra 650, I was able to log in to Linux as a user.
> 
> This suggests that the problem isn't with the installation, but rather with
> the authentication protocols that the IIgs supports.
> 
> I had better luck with Win NT4 SP5 (except, of course, for the part where
> it blue-screens), but Windows 2000 RC1 wouldn't allow non-guest access.

This is likely because of Chooser/Appleshare versions and
authentication. You need to upgrade Appleshare to access Apple's newest
server software.

You may be able to recompile netatalk with TEXT only authentication and
everything else turned off. This may work. (Sorry, I have fooled around
with this, but quit when I got it to work with an RPM + Mandrake).

-mink