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If macipgw is already running, that script might not run as it should. Type sudo systemctl stop macipgw before trying to run the script. The script itself requires root privileges, so add an sudo in front of it. It may also not be picking up your default network interface. Replace $atalkd_if...

One significant block of scripting in A2SERVER's setup is recompiling the AppleTalk kernel module if IPDDP is found. Debian has always compiled IPDDP support in, while in my experience, Ubuntu has not. Don't know if that holds for forked distros. The newer kernels aren't bug free either. I'm...

If you have a NAS device from a major vendor (Synology, etc.), chances are you've used Netatalk without even realizing it.

One thing I haven't extensively tested is the conversion of Apple Double data from the old .AppleDouble folder format to native extended attributes and "dot" files (ex: ._MyFile). So..... back up your shares before trying this! The code should work fine as it wasn't really touched, but always...

This came up during my work on Netatalk. Officially, Netatalk 2.x allows one to display and create NBP entities and zone names in any supported character encoding (ex: MacHebrew, MacGreek, MacJapanese, etc.) The "official" documentation, Inside AppleTalk, is pretty quiet on this. It only...

The battery looks suspiciously like a Sony HandyCam battery, specifically the InfoLithium Type L (NP-F550) that were current at the time the device was made. Checking an actual Type L battery, the tabs are all sorts of different. You could likely get it to fit with some grinding of tabs. Sony...

Over in the netatalk git, we uncovered a tool that may be useful to GlobalTalk clients. Its an enhanced Chooser call "Choosier" written by folks at UMich. It was developed to work with large networks with many zones. http://web.archive.org/web/19961220150401/http://www.umich.edu/~rsug/choosier/...

Found the post from someone who also had this issue with UniFi switches. They had to disable "IGMP Snooping" in order for AppleTalk traffic to pass the switch properly. Multicast DNS should be enabled regardless, otherwise Bonjour/DNS-SD won't work properly with other devices on your network...

The UniFi switch is likely not relying multicast Ethernet traffic, which is required for AppleTalk to work. Sounds like the RTMP broadcast packets aren't reaching your Mac. Others have had this problem with UniFi equipment and re-enabling multicast fixes it.

A circa 1995 machine with a PCI bus should have a PnP BIOS. Aside from really early 1993 PCI boards that configured IRQs with jumpers, it should be PnP.

Weird that the 1540CF has problems with the latest ASPI driver. The 1540B is usually the troublesome one due to some rarely implemented hardware checks: https://www.os2museum.com/wp/learn-something-old-every-day-part-ix-aha-154xb-and-aspi4dos-sys/ Note that the aspi4dos.sys driver does have a...

Just picked up a BlueSCSI v2 Wifi from Amiga of Rochester at VCF East. I can confirm it is working with the RamFAST Rev. D SCSI card in my Apple IIgs as it was not (yet) on the compatibility list. For those wishing to use 2MG files with the BlueSCSI, you can convert them to a compatible format...

If AIR requires classic networking, then any PowerMac with PCI and newer will not work as they require Open Transport. So the AURP gateway is limited to the x100 and x200 Nubus based machines machines.

Someone is writing a AURP gateway in go: https://gitea.drjosh.dev/josh/jrouter

TashRouter doesn't support the AURP IP tunneling protocol that Apple Internet Router uses.

I don't have a Mastodon account, so I'll leave my comments here. Feel free to relay them to the community. If anyone has questions regarding netatalk usage or problems, both client and server side, let me know here or on the various forums I'm on. Looks like all those improvements made to papd...

If you have the IIgs connected via a LocalTalk-to-Ethernet bridge and AppleTalk setup, Just use the stock LaserWriter driver.

Most of the patches on my end were to get Netatalk 2.2.6 to actually compile and run properly on current distros. The papd server was broken for many years. It's clear whoever wrote it only tested it against the LaserWriter 8.x drivers. Anything older was broken simply because the server didn't...

A2SERVER has an option to setup Samba and share the A2FILES folder. The caveat is that one should never connect to the A2FILES share (or any Netatalk 2.x share for that matter) via SMB under MacOS X. The reason is SMB and Netatalk 2.x use an incompatible method of storing extended attributes...