netatalk

[mikeboz]

I am installing netatalk on my redhat 7.1 server.

I want to share files from the RH server to a mac and would like to know what a successfull install looks like. I would like to know what processes I should see running and what file would be added do to the install. Do I start these processes in init.d?

I have installed to /usr/local/atalk, I dont see a afpd running only atalkd and papd.

If I understand correctly the afpd is what makes file sharing possible>?<

Also, during the install I see many 'extra token errors', is this a show stopper?

Any help would be appreciated.

 

[ifincham]

Hi,

Never had to use it myself - there was a rpm in the redhat 7.1 powertools collection that you might like to try and that has a sysv init script -->

http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.r...RedHat/RPMS/netatalk-1.5pre2-6.i386.rpm[peek]

Looking at the cvs version its a bit different -->

http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/....redhat.tmpl?rev=HEAD&content-type=text/plain

However, they both do start afpd as you suspected ...

Hope this helps

 

[DumTech]

I'm running netatalk on my Red Hat 7.1 system at home, but I'm not there right now. I'll check it out this evening for you though...

In the meantime, I don't think I had much trouble with setting up the file sharing (can't say the same for setting up pap to print to my LaserWriter as the lp default printer...!). I think there's a directory in /etc called atalk that will have config files. All I had to do was add the directories I wanted shared in AppleVolumes.default (?) after installing. Think I do see afpd running though...

I think I referred to the document below a good bit when I was getting it going. It might help you out.

http://www.anders.com/projects/netatalk/

 

[DumTech]

Here's what I have running:



root 17507 0.0 0.0 3160 48 ? S Feb10 0:00 atalkd

root 17518 0.0 0.0 3172 4 ? S Feb10 0:00 papd

root 17523 0.0 0.0 3440 4 ? S Feb10 0:00 afpd -c 5 -n linux

matt 17600 0.0 0.0 4872 52 ? S Feb10 0:09 afpd -c 5 -n linux





I added these lines to AppleVolumes.default:



/ linuxroot rwlist:matt

/mnt driveshare rwlist:matt



This is what /etc/atalk/config looks like:



# Appletalk configuration

# Change this to increase the maximum number of clients that can connect:

AFPD_MAX_CLIENTS=5

# Change this to set the machine's atalk name:

ATALK_NAME=`echo ${HOSTNAME}|cut -d. -f1`

# Set which daemons to run:

PAPD_RUN=yes

AFPD_RUN=yes

# Control whether the daemons are started in the background

ATALK_BGROUND=yes



I didn't make any changes to afpd.conf; in fact, the whole file is commented out. The simplest setup, it says within, is to have no afpd.conf.



Hope that helps. It may not necessarily be 100% &quot;right,&quot; but it's been working fine for several months with a beige G3 and a PowerMac 7100/66.

 

[mikeboz]

My biggest problem was finding the correct source to use for install. Anyway, being new to linux, I finally realized that the rpm was the easiest way. Got the rpm off of the RH site

prompt> rmp -ivh netatalk.*.rpm and I was off and running.

added my export to the A*.default file and the share was working.

Compiling the source was what added all the confusion.

afpd and atalk run now and I show on the network as a AFP server.

Thanks for the replies. Im all set now.