Re: Progress with netatalk on Seagate DockStar

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

On Oct 21, 2:22 pm, pitz <pitz.w...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Oct 21, 1:52 pm, BLuRry <brendan.rob...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > 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?
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> > > > 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
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> > 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

I'll have to check on the 9V rating tonight.  I could have sworn I saw
9V (but maybe that's on something else I'm working on).