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From: austins@violet.berkeley.edu (Austin Shelton)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk
Subject: Apple PC AppleShare / CAP Incompatibility
Keywords: AppleShare PC CAP Bug
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Date: 25 Aug 88 21:28:01 GMT
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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