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netracer
Nov 12, 2010Apprentice
AFP Not Working
So I've been beating my head against the wall trying to solve a problem with both a Macbook and Macbook Pro not being able to see the AFP share on my ReadyNAS Pro on my home network. I'm a Mac newbie...
AddeBC
Nov 22, 2010Aspirant
Update. logged on with ssh just to check status of avahi-daemon. Killed process and restarted just to get the output:
as-02-04-AF:/etc/avahi# avahi-daemon
Found user 'admin' (UID 98) and group 'admin' (GID 98).
Successfully dropped root privileges.
avahi-daemon 0.6.15 starting up.
Loading service file /etc/avahi/services/afp.service.
Loading service file /etc/avahi/services/cifs.service.
Loading service file /etc/avahi/services/frontview.service.
Loading service file /etc/avahi/services/readynas.service.
New relevant interface LeafNets.IPv4 for mDNS.
Joining mDNS multicast group on interface LeafNets.IPv4 with address 5.168.46.242.
New relevant interface eth0.IPv4 for mDNS.
Joining mDNS multicast group on interface eth0.IPv4 with address 10.10.10.12.
Network interface enumeration completed.
Registering new address record for 5.168.46.242 on LeafNets.
Registering new address record for 10.10.10.12 on eth0.
Registering HINFO record with values 'PADRE'/'LINUX'.
Server startup complete. Host name is nas-02-04-AF.local. Local service cookie is 816897388.
Service "ReadyNAS Discovery [nas-02-04-AF]" (/etc/avahi/services/readynas.service) successfully established.
Service "FrontView on nas-02-04-AF" (/etc/avahi/services/frontview.service) successfully established.
Service "nas-02-04-AF (CIFS)" (/etc/avahi/services/cifs.service) successfully established.
Service "nas-02-04-AF (AFP)" (/etc/avahi/services/afp.service) successfully established.
As far as i can see everything should be working. But macbook wont see the afp services.
as-02-04-AF:/etc/avahi# avahi-daemon
Found user 'admin' (UID 98) and group 'admin' (GID 98).
Successfully dropped root privileges.
avahi-daemon 0.6.15 starting up.
Loading service file /etc/avahi/services/afp.service.
Loading service file /etc/avahi/services/cifs.service.
Loading service file /etc/avahi/services/frontview.service.
Loading service file /etc/avahi/services/readynas.service.
New relevant interface LeafNets.IPv4 for mDNS.
Joining mDNS multicast group on interface LeafNets.IPv4 with address 5.168.46.242.
New relevant interface eth0.IPv4 for mDNS.
Joining mDNS multicast group on interface eth0.IPv4 with address 10.10.10.12.
Network interface enumeration completed.
Registering new address record for 5.168.46.242 on LeafNets.
Registering new address record for 10.10.10.12 on eth0.
Registering HINFO record with values 'PADRE'/'LINUX'.
Server startup complete. Host name is nas-02-04-AF.local. Local service cookie is 816897388.
Service "ReadyNAS Discovery [nas-02-04-AF]" (/etc/avahi/services/readynas.service) successfully established.
Service "FrontView on nas-02-04-AF" (/etc/avahi/services/frontview.service) successfully established.
Service "nas-02-04-AF (CIFS)" (/etc/avahi/services/cifs.service) successfully established.
Service "nas-02-04-AF (AFP)" (/etc/avahi/services/afp.service) successfully established.
As far as i can see everything should be working. But macbook wont see the afp services.
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