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Netatalk share drive how to#
Netatalk share drive install#

So I decided to find a way to install latest version 3.1.6. This was really annoying for me, especially because one of the folders which I share is a DropBox folder which is synchronizing all the. This means if you will use version 2 you will find that every time you try to access network share from OS X you will see a lot of. I have this in /usr/local/etc/afp.conf: Global Global server settings log file /var/log/netatalk.log uam list uamsguest.so PHP Sites path /var/www file perm 0664 directory perm 0775 guest account www-data. There are a lot of differences between versions 2 and 3, but the main one is that in version 3 you can store Apple metadata and resource forks in extended attributes of the filesystem (see Upgrading from Netatalk 2). I can configure the share using Netatalk but cannot allow guest write access - it is currently read only. The last available version is 3.1.6, but the last version available on Ubuntu’s apt-get is 2.2.2. You can setup AFP server on Linux using Netatalk. Time Machine works like a charm with any Linux Machine featuring Netatalk. There are two benefits of having AFP server in network: a) have access from OS X machines to shared folders b) have a TimeMachine backup server. I use it only to share folders with Windows machines.

SMB - Server Message Block - supported by Windows / OS X.

I've got dozens of users backing up to one Mac mini that has an iSCSI mount to a much more powerful server, and it's solid. Trying to run it over Netatalk leads to problems.

AFP - Apple Filing Protocol - as you can guess from the name - good to have it for Apple devices. Network TimeMachine works great to a share hosted by another Mac running the OS X Server.app.

Because I don’t have LDAP in my home network - I did not consider to use it. It worth investment if you have LDAP in your network and you want to statically mount this share to your machines.

NFS - Network File System - this one requires a lot of configurations to setup it right.

Of course, you can export server directories not only via Netatalk. As far as I know there are three different types of network protocols: Remove the semicolons in the first column to share the CD-ROM drive via Samba. The next steps will be about making this home server usable.įirst of all we can configure server as a file share server. In first two blogposts we made it possible to get remote access to our server from outside world.

NOTE: I highly recommend to take a look on how to install netatalk with Docker in this article Using docker at home

Netatalk share drive install#

Netatalk share drive how to#