[K12OSN] Netatalk Problems

[Jim Kronebusch]

> You might try a newer version of netatalk. I've been 
> rebuilding whatever version is newest from Fedora 
> Development, with good results. YMMV.
> 
> We experienced similar symptoms w/ the netatalk 1.5 -> 1.6 
> transition. All was fixed for us by nuking the existing 
> .AppleDB folders in home directories and shares and setting 
> appropriate permissions on the .AppleDB in the shares once 
> they'd been recreated.
> 
> Log in once from a Mac as someone who can write to the share. 
> Copy a file up to the share. $ chgrp -R your_group 
> /path/to/share $ chmod -R g+rw /path/to/share $ chmod g+s 
> /path/to/share/.AppleDB
> 
> Again, this was only needed on our shares. Home directories 
> weren't affected, because they obviously had ownership and 
> permissions to write to the .AppleDB folder. Everything has 
> been hunky-dory since we did that.

Thanks Dan.  I will check out my Netatalk version and upgrade if
possible.  I will also set the permissions as you have suggested.
Thanks again.

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