I have netatalk 2.2.1 up and running, but it seems that I can only connect over TCP. This is a problem for older systems (a problem I don't have with Linintosh). If I try to connect over AppleTalk I can login and see the shared folder list. But when I try to connect to a folder the chooser hangs for a few minutes and then a dialog box pops up saying "the file server's connection has unexpectedly closed down". Connecting over TCP works perfectly. I have -transall set in afpd.conf.[...]
As a follow-up I think the issue was with Netatalk 2.2.1. I dropped down to 2.1.6 (I have no need for Lion Time Machine backup capability) and everything works fine.
I've noticed the same problem with Netatalk 2.2.0 on a NAS (Synology DS110j). -transall is set, and AFP/IP works fine, but over DDP (by turning of Open Transport TCP/IP) I get the exact same freeze and message.
My theory is that nobody is actively testing the DDP protocol with modern versions of Netatalk. Instead, people are working on things like Time Machine under Lion, and Zeroconf/Avahi support.
I'll see if I can manually downgrade Netatalk on my NAS to 2.1.6 and report back.
