[K12OSN] Appletalk and K12LTSP

[Huck]

We have some funk happening with OSX actually....
sometimes the OSX machines can see the smb shares and other times they 
can't...
and when they do connect and authenticate there isn't he 'eject' button 
to disconnect so it shows a fantom folder from the last people to connect.
as I don't teach/maintain/or do much of anything else with the Mac 
Lab...I'm not there when these things occur..

The odd thing is...there were two different install disks used...on a G5 
the disk that came with it.. on the G4's they used whatever the latest 
jungle-cat name distro Mac is calling their OS...the G5 has NO PROBLEMO 
(yay high school spanish!), it's the G4's with "the other" install disks 
that seem to have these issues...when browsing the network as well.  
*shrugs*

(personally I think Macintosh(the company) could do a lot better if they 
used a straight linux distro..got behind it 100% and started developing 
apps/suites instead of actually competing in the OS market) *steps off 
of soap box*

--Huck

Jim Hays wrote:

> I am using a K12LTSP server as a file server for one of our grade 
> schools.  (I have three schools using K12LTSP as file servers.)  This 
> morning, Appletalk started acting up on one of the servers. (After a 
> brief power blink.  Yes, the server and the client computers have been 
> restarted as has the proxy server and the router)
> When I try to connect from an OSX Mac (OSX 10.2.5), I get
>
> Connection Failed
> This file server is running on your machine....................
>
> When I try to connect from OS9, I enter the username and password and 
> the machine freezes when attempting to display the list of shares.
> These machines are able to connect to other servers in other buildings 
> and the OSX machine can connect to the problem server via SMB.  AFP is 
> broke.
>
> I compared the configuration files with the ones from the working 
> server and could not find any discernable difference.
> Has anyone experienced this?  Any ideas?
>
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