netatalk and old old macintoches

[Shelagh Manton]

On Sat, 07 Jan 2006 16:51:26 -0800, Mike Bird wrote:

> On Sat, 2006-01-07 at 15:27, Shelagh Manton wrote:
>> I cranked up my mother's old old macintosh the other day (os 8.4) and
>> tried out the netatalk software to speak over the network with it. There
>> are some files on it we need and the printer cables are missing and the
>> floppy drive appears to have died. However, I can't get things working at
>> all and in fact it appears to have b*ggered the partially functional samba
>> thing we did have working on our network.
>> 
>> Are there any netatalk gurus out there? And maybe while we're at it a
>> samba guru or two might be useful too!
> 
> We've never been able to get Breezy's netatalk to work with some of
> the 8.x and 9.x Mac OS's, although I don't recall whether 8.4 was
> on the list.  In any event, we use Hoary's netatalk in a mostly
> Breezy configuration to avoid netatalk problems.
> 
> We use a non-standard technique which works with our software but
> would not be of much help to you.  However, if you Google "Debian
> Apt Pinning" without the quotes you should find the answer, or you
> can apt-get install a particular version if you read "man apt-get".
> 
> If you're not yet comfortable with this level of sysadmin task
> your options are to revert to Hoary, switch to Debian Stable or
> another distro, or wait for a fix sometime in an improbable
> future.
> 
> (Bendacht for cech N-Oen legfas:  Flame-warriors please leave
> this alone.  People can search the recent archives if they need
> further information.)
> 
> --Mike Bird
Oh dear,

Looks like the low tech version of starting up the mac and retyping the
file on my machine is the quickest solution. 

Shelagh
much