Netatalk: macs cannot see the bsd server

[Palle Girgensohn]

Hi,

i have a problem that I cannot quite understand: With netatalk running on a 
FreeBSD server, my Macs cannot see the server. AFP over IP works fine, but 
I have to enter the IP-address manually.

I tried with and without slpd (with default setting). nbplkup on the server 
only gives the BSD machine, no Mac.

The Mac is quite old, runs 8.6. Does this have anything to do with it?

Any ideas how this should be configured to work?

/Palle