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We are a graphic arts class in a Florida correctional institution. We have approximately 20 computers, both PC's and Mac's. Our server has been using Mandrake 8.2 for the last year and a half. It has worked very well as a file server and an "intranet" apache server. Netatalk AFP worked well in 8.2. When we switched over to Mandrake 9.2 and tested Mandrake10.0, we could not get AFP to work in netatalk so we reverted to TCP which works fine. Below are the active portions of our netatalk configuration files. What do we need to reconfigure to make AFP work in Mandrake 9.2? afpd.conf # CONFIGURATION FOR AFPD # default: - -tcp -noddp -uamlist uams_clrtxt.so,uams_dhx.so -nosavepassword -admingroup adm #These lines are not in the actual conf file: We turned off -ddp because it was not #working. The Mandrake 8.2 file started - -notcp –ddp when AFP worked. #-tcp works well but we would like to have AFP working in Mandrake 9.2. AppleVolumes.default # /home/local/samba-quickshare "quickshare" options:mswindows allow:@adm,@advusers rwlist:@adm,@advusers /home "admin" options:mswindows allow:@adm rwlist:@adm /home/local/archives "archives" options:mswindows allow:@adm rwlist:@adm /home/local/tutorials/Mac "tutorials" options:mswindows allow:@adm,@users rolist:@users rwlist:@adm ~ netatalk.conf # Appletalk configuration # Change this to increase the maximum number of clients that can connect: AFPD_MAX_CLIENTS=20 # Change this to set the machine's atalk name and zone. # NOTE: if your zone has spaces in it, you're better off specifying # it in afpd.conf #ATALK_ZONE=@zone ATALK_NAME=`echo ${HOSTNAME}|cut -d. -f1` # Change this to set the id of the guest user AFPD_GUEST=nobody # Set which daemons to run (papd is dependent upon atalkd): ATALKD_RUN=yes PAPD_RUN=yes AFPD_RUN=yes TIMELORD_RUN=no # Control whether the daemons are started in the background ATALK_BGROUND=no atalkd.conf # This turns on transition routing between the le0 and le1 # interfaces on a Sun. It also causes atalkd to fail if other # routers disagree about it's configuration of le1. eth0 -phase 2 -net 0-65534 -addr 65280.71 Thanks!

We are running Mandrake 8.2 on a server in a classroom setting with approximately 15 PC’s and Mac’s connected to it. We tried to change a hard drive which is used as a backup copy of our data files by going into Mandrake Control Center and unmounting the drive. When we rebooted the system would not reboot. We reconnected the drive and the system rebooted. We then unmounted and cleared the drive from the Mandrake Control Center. The system would not reboot and in failsafe mode we received the messages “cannot read filesystem” & “superblock” is incorrect. We then used KNOPPIX to reboot and determined that the files were not corrupt. We opened /etc/mtab and etc/fstab. Fstab still had a line addressing hdc1, the drive we removed. We deactivated the line in knoppix with the # sign using root and emacs. On reboot of Mandrake everything booted properly. Would you please describe how to do the following: 1. How can we remove a HD from a computer without destroying the data and mount points? 2. How can we place mount points on a drive that contains data without destroying the data? 3. How can we take a drive from one computer and mount it on another computer without destroying the data? Thank you for your help. We have really enjoyed Mandrake Linux and are now trying to document the differences in Mandrake 9.2 so we can upgrade our server in the future. We have Mandrake 9.2 up and running as a test server and it seems to be working well.

I am using Mandrake 8.2 as a server in a classroom environment with approximately 20 PC’s and Mac’s networked to it. I have installed Mandrake 8.2 as a file server, intranet web server, and mail server. The operating system is working very well in this application. I have been able to back up all of the partitions except for hda1, the root partition. We have tried to copy the partition in mc and using the cp command, but have not been able to copy it back to hda1 after a test crash. We have tried to copy it back in rescue but it has not worked. When I copied the files, I copied them to a partition hda7 into a backup directory. Could you please show me keystroke by keystroke how to backup hda1, my root directory, and how to recopy it back to partition hda1 in the event of a severe crash that would make the OS unbootable. Is there a Linux program available that will do this? As it stands now we must reinstall the OS in the event of a major crash. Thank you for your help.

We are using Mandrake 8.2 as a server in a classroom environment. We also have an intranet using “Apache”, an E-Mail Server and are using Jabber for instant messaging. Our server is using a 1.2GHz processor with 512 MB of ram. When we first start “Samba” and “Atalk”(for Mac’s) or restart them the system works great. However, after a few hours, file coping and saving really slow down. We can restart the “Samba” and “Atalk” and everything is fine again. It was suggested to us that our Cache and/or RAM were not cleaning out old data and that there is a utility we could set up to accomplish this task. How can we keep our server responding quickly? Please give me any suggestions in a step by step fashion as I am not Linux literate. Thank you for your help