Porter,

Thanks a lot.

That was interesting. I removed (well, commented) the config line in the atalkd.conf and restarted services, then power cycled the AsanteTalk.

when I checked from both sides to see if they could see each other, there was nothing. After a couple minutes, I tried again and then the Mac alerted me that my network was available and:

$ nbplkup

janetweif:AFPServer 65280.144:132

janet:netatalkweif 65280.144:4

janet:Workstationweif 65280.144:4

AsantTalk 94B032F5:AsantTalk 65300.31:252

KeithÕs Macintosh:AFPServer 65300.32:250

KeithÕs Macintosh:ARA - Client-Only 65300.32:2

KeithÕs Macintosh: Macintosh 65300.32:252

KeithÕs Macintosh:Workstation 65300.32:4

And the chooser shows the FreeBSD server.

Much progress and goodness.

However, when I try to connect to the share on "janetweif" from the chooser, I get an error, "This file server does not use a recognizable log on sequence."

Though connecting to the machine directly would be awesome (probably some configuration setting for authentication in afpd.conf?), If I can get macipgw or something similar running that would give a usable workaround.

Thanks