Re: Progress with netatalk on Seagate DockStar

[pitz <pitz.wong@gmail.com>]

On Oct 21, 1:52 pm, BLuRry <brendan.rob...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Oct 21, 12:21 am, BLuRry <brendan.rob...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > On Oct 20, 6:44 pm, Geoff Body <gbo...@bigpond.com> wrote:
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> > > > 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.
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> > > When I get home tonight I will pass these on.
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> > > Geoff
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> > 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

That's the idea.   The DockStar uses 9V for its input;  is it possible
to somehow get that from the power supply or from using the
LittlePower adapter?  If it can be done, we can put the DockStar and
the Etherwave adapter (chained from the ADB port) inside the IIgs
case.

Regardless how you want to set it up, the DockStar is another good way
of transferring files to the IIgs because it has additional USB ports.

A subsequent project I'd like to work on is a MacIP server for the
DockStar.  So that I can also use that as my Marinetti gateway to the
Internet.  Anybody know a Linux/Unix-based source code for MacIP?  Did
the DDP package from Columbia University had a MacIP server?

/pitz