According to this post on the Netatalk list, apparently some of our AppleTalk problems may be due to having home directories mounted over NFS to the AppleTalk server.
Fortunately, there’s a fix — I created /usr/local/atalkdb/$user for all users on PAX and then changed AppleVolumes.default to include dbpath:/usr/local/atalkdb/$u for the ~ (home) share. This path is getting used, but I’ve yet to verify with anyone who had problems before whether they’re continuing to have problems or not.
Posted by Rowan Littell at September 6, 2004 11:31 AM