HOWTO Netatalk 2.0.3 (No Appletalk)

vmissouril · n00b Joined: 13 Dec 2005 Posts: 8

Netatalk 2.0.3 Basic Settings (no Appletalk) Gentoo
This is for a Sparc64 Sever & Intel PIII Server with Guest Login for OS X 10.4.3 Clients, but should do well for others.

1. emerge netatalk
OPTIONAL: If you dont want x11 or cups installed use this instead
USE="-x11 -cups" emerge netatalk

2. add this script /etc/init.d/afpd
#!/sbin/runscript

depend() {
need net
}

start() {
ebegin "Starting Apple File Sharing"
start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --exec /usr/sbin/afpd
eend $?
}

stop() {
ebegin "Stopping Apple File Sharing"
start-stop-daemon --stop --quiet --exec /usr/sbin/afpd
eend $?
}

3. chmod 755 /etc/init.d/afpd

4. rc-update add afpd default

5. netatalk.conf (/etc/netatalk/netatalk.conf)
#ATALK_NAME=`echo ${HOSTNAME}|cut -d. -f1`
#ATALK_MAC_CHARSET='MAC_ROMAN'
#ATALK_UNIX_CHARSET='LOCALE'
AFPD_GUEST=nobody
ATALKD_RUN=no
PAPD_RUN=no
AFPD_RUN=yes
TIMELORD_RUN=no
A2BOOT_RUN=no
ATALK_BGROUND=no
#export ATALK_MAC_CHARSET
#export ATALK_UNIX_CHARSET

6. afpd.conf (/etc/netatalk/afpd.conf)
- -noddp -uamlist uams_guest.so

7. AppleVolumes.default (/etc/netatalk/AppleVolumes.default)
~
/home/Houses/ Houses
/home/Archives/ Archives password:pantone
# Use any folder you want. These are just examples

8. /etc/init.d/afpd start

9. emerge howl

10. mkdir /etc/howl

11. mDNSResponder.conf (/etc/howl/mDNSResponder.conf)
GentooAFP _afpovertcp._tcp local. 548
# GentooAFP can be any name you want. This is just an example

12. /etc/init.d/mDNSResponder start

13. rc-update add mDNSResponder default

Edit (12/27/2005): Just made it a bit more clear on what to do.
Edit (02/03/2006): Added an optional procedure to step 1 and a few more clarifications

cogitate · Posted: Wed Feb 15, 2006 10:22 pm Post subject:

I can connect using Go->Connect to Server from the Mac, but the entry does not show up in the Finder under Network. I've got netatalk working fine (Connections from the mac work, can connect to all shares)

/etc/howl/mDNSResponder.conf contains:

cogitate · Posted: Thu Feb 16, 2006 1:51 am Post subject:

For anyone who has similar problems (this might also apply to iTunes Music Server problems), I managed to get the share to be discovered by unmerging howl and emerging avahi (another zeroconf implementation). Avahi is masked, so you'll have to unmask it.

Crazor · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 23 Apr 2003 Posts: 131

cogitate · Posted: Thu Feb 16, 2006 12:32 pm Post subject:

Stupid mistake. No, the typo was only in the posting. The config file did contain .tcp

vmissouril · n00b Joined: 13 Dec 2005 Posts: 8

what version of howl are you using. 0.98 works fine....1.0.0 seems to be broken.

to get Howl to work for 1.0.0 I had to type this for it to show in the finder

$ mDNSPublish GentooAFP _afpovertcp._tcp local. 548

this output should show

GentooAFP _afpovertcp._tcp 0
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robinp · n00b Joined: 26 Feb 2005 Posts: 8

For more information look at https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=133575.

Hopefully this will be supported natively in netatalk 2.0.4