For what it's worth, I am running clients using 8.5.1 and 8.6 and have had
no problems as of yet with mounting volumes on startup.
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> From: JK
> Sent: Wednesday, April 5, 2000 12:49 AM
> To: Richard Parker
> Cc: netatalk admins list
> Subject: Re: Macs forgetting to remount volumes
>
> >
> > Once the volume is selected and marked for remounting at boot up time,
> > and the user name and password entered and marked to be remembered it
> > mounts and works perfectly... until reboot... at which point it might or
> > might not remount the volume correctly...
> >
>
> Yes, I've had the same trouble. It goes away when I shut down my firewall
> server on the same network.
>
> I think the TCP/IP on some 8.6 and eariler
> macs is not *ready* in time for the mounting of netatalk volume at boot.
> My OS9 macs are no problem.
>
> It could be a TCP/IP problem. Perhaps try running a ddp only afpd.
> It's a little more broadcast traffic...
>
> Try to force different appletalk network addresses. I've had some luck
> with this. Recently I fixxed this by switching to a classC from a classA.
> (10.0.0.0/8 changed to 192.168.0.0/24) And playing around with the
> atalkd.conf, limiting the addr to smaller number.
>
> I would like any comments to what the real fix is :)
>
> /jk
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