AppleTalk hickups under OS X

[Dradts]

Sometimes, OS X 10.1.1 completely hangs up when trying to copy files over an AppleTalk network.
Its not a kernel panic, just a complete mouse freeze. Remote login also won't work after the OS X freezed, so theres nothing left than to press the restart button


It only happens like once in 2 weeks, but it scares me anyways. Has this also happened to other users yet, or is it just a problem wit my OS X?

Its an AppleTalk network wit 4 Macs; 1 iMac DV SE 500 running OS X 10.1.1, 1 iMac DV SE 600 running OS 9.2.1, 1 Performa 5300 running OS 9.1 and a Performa 630 DOS compatible running OS 8.

[dricci]

Does this happen when you are copying files to/from the older Macs on the AppleTalk network? If so, the version of AppleTalk they run may be outdated and causing some type of communication problem between the old AppleTalk and OS X, resulting in a crash.

Or, it may just be that something got screwed up in your AppleTalk install. Try running Disk First Aid (I think it's located in Applications > Utilities) on your hard disk and see if it finds anything wrong with your hard disk. That may sound kinda pointless, but Disk First Aid saved me from having to reformat the other day.. so give it a shot

Other than those two things, I can't think of anything else that it could be. I haven't had that problem before, although I really don't connect to too many AppleTalk shares, mostly just samba shares so I can access my mp3s I store on my compaq muwhahaha

[Dradts]

It happens when copying files from my OS X iMac to the OS 9 Macs. Most notably, it only happens when trying to copy files wit longer filenames than 31 characters. When trying to do this, a box saying "error -39" appears on my screen. On lucky days, i can just click "ok" and continue working. On days like today, OS X freezes
I've already checked my hd for errors using fsck -y, but it said that everything wuz ok.
I've had the same problems wit apple talk back in the early os x days, wit OS X 10.3/10.4. But after doing a clean install of OS X 10.1 (with formatting the hd), this problem still didn't go away.
Seems really to b an incompatibility between the different AppleTalk Versions

[dricci]

Ah, that's probably the problem. OS 9 has some problems with long file names. They're not true "long" file names like in OS X. In X a file name can be whatever, but in 9 it's limited.

So you'll have to rename your filenames shorter before copying to 9 from X.

[Dradts]

Yeah I know. But I think OS X shouldnt crash when trying to copy filenames which are too long. Hopefully Apple will solve this problem wit the next OS X update...