If you’re like me you have an OSX computer or 3 at home, and a debian file server. If you’re like me you hate samba/nfs on principle and want your debian server to show up in finder. If you’re like me you arent using debian 3 which is what most of the walkthroughs seem to expect… This is how I did it… With Debian Lenny.
What we’re using, and why:
- Avahi handles zeroconf (making it show up in finder) (most howtos involve howl which is no longer in apt)
- netatalk has afpd
- afpd is the fileserver
From: http://blog.damontimm.com/how-to-install-netatalk-afp-on-ubuntu-with-encrypted-authentication/
- apt-get update
- mkdir -p ~/src/netatalk
- cd ~/src/netatalk
- apt-get install cracklib2-dev libssl-dev
- apt-get source netatalk
- apt-get build-dep netatalk
- cd netatalk-2.0.3
From: http://www.sharedknowhow.com/2008/05/installing-netatalk-under-centos-5-with-leopard-support/
- vim bin/cnid/cnid_index.c ## replace “ret = db->stat(db, &sp, 0);” with “ret = db->stat(db, NULL, &sp, 0);” line 277
- vim etc/cnid_dbd/dbif.c ## replace “ret = db->stat(db, &sp, 0);” with “ret = db->stat(db, NULL, &sp, 0);” line 517
Mine
- ./configure –prefix=/usr/local/netatalk
- make
- make install
- vim /etc/rc.local ## add “/usr/local/netatalk/sbin/afpd”
- /usr/local/netatalk/sbin/afpd
- apt-get install avahi-daemon
- vim /etc/nsswitch.conf ## make the hosts line read “hosts: files dns mdns4″
- cd /etc/avahi/services
- wget http://www.disgruntled-dutch.com/media/afpd.service
- /etc/init.d/avahi-daemon restart
in case that file drops off the face of the net, this is its contents (except “< ?” is “<?” and “< !” is “<!”) :
< ?xml version="1.0" standalone='no'?><!--*-nxml-*--> < !DOCTYPE service-group SYSTEM "avahi-service.dtd"> <service -group> <name replace-wildcards="yes">%h</name> </service><service> <type>_afpovertcp._tcp</type> <port>548</port> </service>
At this point your server should show up under the network in your finder… and you should be able to connect with any system username/pw combo