NetATalk Not Working in Lucid

[jrolland]

Hello, all!

I have been using netatalk to use my old LaserWriter PS 4/600 with Kubuntu.

Everything was fine until I upgraded to Lucid.

Now, when I go to restart netatalk, I get

user@machine:~$ sudo /etc/init.d/netatalk restart
Restarting Netatalk Daemons (this will take a while)Stopping Netatalk Daemons: afpd cnid_metad papd timelord atalkd.
..Starting Netatalk services (this will take a while):  afpd.
done.
user@machine:~$

and the process takes about 2 seconds, instead of the ~5 minutes it took under Karmic.

Finally, when I go to do an nbplkup, I get nothing:

user@machine:~$ nbplkup
nbp_lookup: Cannot assign requested address
user@machine:~$

I tried uninstalling and reinstalling netatalk, but the same thing happens. Can anyone help?

[radag87]

Hello jrolland

I had a similar issue with regular Ubuntu 10.04. I got instructions on another Mac related issue that talked about /etc/default/netatalk.

Change the /etc/default/netatalk file from

# Set which daemons to run (papd is dependent upon atalkd):
ATALKD_RUN=no
PAPD_RUN=no

to

# Set which daemons to run (papd is dependent upon atalkd):
ATALKD_RUN=yes
PAPD_RUN=yes

Then execute

sudo /etc/init.d/netatalk restart

See if that solves your issue. If it does not, then you have exhausted the limit of my knowledge on netatalk and will have to seek help from a different person.

Regards

[jrolland]

radag87,

That worked! Thank you so much!

(Sorry I didn't reply earlier. I thought I had set my preferences to have me emailed when there was a reply to this topic, but I evidently didn't have my preferences set that way.)

I will mark this thread as "Solved".

[Suchthefool]

This is exactly what I need to do as I'm having the same problems but I am pretty inexperianced with this. How do I do this part:

Change the /etc/default/netatalk file from

# Set which daemons to run (papd is dependent upon atalkd):
ATALKD_RUN=no
PAPD_RUN=no

to

# Set which daemons to run (papd is dependent upon atalkd):
ATALKD_RUN=yes
PAPD_RUN=yes

Any help will be much appreicated!

[epud]

sudo gedit /etc/default/netatalk

Should allow you to edit the file.