austins@violet.berkeley.edu (Austin Shelton) (08/26/88)
I seem to have stumbled on an incompatibility between Apple AppleShare for the PC and CAP. I can successfully atttach and use a LaserWriter directly from the PC and mount and use an AppleShare server running on an actual Macintosh. However, I am not able to access a CAP printer or AUFS file server. I would appreciate any help anyone can provide. Here's the current situation: I have an actual IBM PC/AT running DOS version 3.2. Installed is an AppleTalk PC Card (from Apple) running the AppleTalk LocalTalk PC driver version 2.0 and AppleShare PC version 1.0. This is all on a small PhoneNet which has a KIP 6/88 gateway to the rest of the world. Now, the whole magilla comes up O.K. and I can see all the other zones and their resources using the "DA" program. I am able to use a LaserWriter and access a "real" AppleShare file server in all the ways described in the documentation. The printer problem is this: When I try to attach a CAP printer, the PC hangs while "initializing". A glance at the LaserWriter log file on Unix reveals that CAP is detecting checksum errors and dropping packets. Naturally the printer is not attached, Ctrl-Alt-Del is required to restore normalcy. An attempt to login to an AUFS file server has two possible results. If the system is password protected, all passwords are rejected. I cannot login. If the file server allows guests, the PC hangs while "adding icon". Again, Ctrl-Alt-Del is required to restore normalcy (such as it is...) Any ideas? I am going to try obtaining some traces of the packet activity and compare the PC to an actual Macintosh doing the same thing. I am also going to see if any useful debugging info can be obtained from AUFS. If anyone has already been here, please let me know what you discovered. Thanks, Austin Shelton U.C. Berkeley
cck@cunixc.columbia.edu (Charlie C. Kim) (08/26/88)
Austin, You are being hit by two different things. First, Aufs does not support short files names and a couple of other minor calls which are necessary for AppleShare PC (and ProDOS if that version exists yet). This is quite unfortunate, but is not something we plan on changing soon, if ever. Second, the problem with printing from the PC to the CAP server is a problem with the AppleShare PC card: as I remember it, you can get the ROMS replaced and things work right (based on some information I got from an Apple guy who was trying to find out how widespread this problem might be -- but I could only guess at the # of people who had CAP because very few people had been sending in their WHOIS files so I guess the problem faded into the background). I'm not sure who in Apple could help you do something about this particualar problem... Not having an Apple PC AppleTalk card, I can't even guess what the actual problem is (hard to run a AT/PC bus card in a MicroBus machine) -- it might be a problem with every off-"local cable" server. Charlie C. Kim Systems & Networking Group Center for Computing Activities Columbia Unviersity