Re: Progress with netatalk on Seagate DockStar

[BLuRry <brendan.robert@gmail.com>]

On Oct 21, 12:21 am, BLuRry <brendan.rob...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Oct 20, 6:44 pm, Geoff Body <gbo...@bigpond.com> wrote:
>
> > > Another reason I'm building the randnum UAM is that although Marsha's
> > > CDEV supports cleartext authentication, the IIgs netboot login still
> > > rejects my cleartext credentials.  If netatalk could offer randnum
> > > authentication, then the IIgs netboot login should be able to use
> > > that.  Anybody know how to patch the IIgs netboot login in the same
> > > way Marsha did for the CDEV so that cleartext auth works?
>
> > The issue is due to cleartxt password being reversed during a buffer
> > copy while building the Appletalk packet for logon request.
> > I have a patch to fix this issue for both of the boot blocks.
>
> > When I get home tonight I will pass these on.
>
> > Geoff
>
> Yay!  Glad to see someone else is having fun voiding their Dockstar
> warranty!  :-)  For $20 on ePay, you really can't beat it for a low-
> cost, low-power file server!
>
> -B

Couldn't you just tuck the dockstar inside the //gs case and power it
off the 12v rail?  It only uses 8 watts after all...

-B