Netatalk 2.0 Manual

Table of Contents

Legal Notice

1. Introduction to Netatalk

2. Installation

How to obtain Netatalk

Binary packages

Source packages

Compiling Netatalk

Prerequisites

Compiling Netatalk

Compiling a new Berkeley DB for Netatalk

3. Setting up Netatalk

Appletalk

To use AppleTalk or not

No AppleTalk routing

atalkd acting as an AppleTalk router

File Services

Setting up the AFP file server

CNID backends

Charsets/Unicode

Authentication

Printing

Setting up the PAP print server

Using AppleTalk printers

Time Services

Using Netatalk as a time server for Macintoshes

Starting and stopping Netatalk

4. Upgrading from a previous version of Netatalk

Overview

Volumes and filenames

How to upgrade a volume to 2.0

How to use a 1.x CAP encoded volume with 2.0

How to use a 1.x NLS volume with 2.0

Choosing a CNID storage scheme

How to upgrade if no persistent CNID storage was used

How to upgrade if a persistent CNID storage scheme was used

How to upgrade if a persistent CNID storage scheme was used, the brute force approach

Setting up a test server on the same machine

Setting up an empty test share

Duplicating an already existing share

Configuring and running the test afpd

5. Manual Pages

achfile — change type and/or creator of Apple Macintosh files (netatalk format)

acleandir — clean up a directory containing netatalk Apple Macintosh files

aecho — send AppleTalk Echo Protocol packets to network hosts

afile — display type and creator of Apple Macintosh files (netatalk format)

afpd — AppleTalk Filing Protocol daemon

afpd.conf — Configuration file used by afpd(8) to determine the setup of its file sharing services

afppasswd — netatalk password maintenance utility

AppleVolumes.default — Configuration file used by afpd(8) to determine the shares made available through Appletalk

apple_cp — Do an apple copy, copying file metadata and the resource fork as well

apple_mv — Do an apple move, moving metadata and the resource fork as well

apple_rm — Do an apple remove, remove metadata and resource fork as well

asip-status.pl — Queries AFP servers for their capabilities

atalk — AppleTalk protocol family

atalkd — AppleTalk RTMP, NBP, ZIP, and AEP manager

atalkd.conf — Configuration file used by atalkd(8) to determine the interfaces used by the master Netatalk daemon

atalk_aton — AppleTalk address parsing

cnid_dbd — implement access to CNID databases through a dedicated daemon process

cnid_index — check and repair Netatalk CNID database indexes

cnid_metad — start cnid_dbd daemons on request

getzones — list AppleTalk zone names

megatron — Macintosh file format transformer

nbp — access NBP database

nbp_name — NBP name parsing

netatalk.conf — Configuration file used by netatalk(8) to determine its general configuration

netatalk-config — script to get information about the installed version of netatalk

pap — client interface to remote printers using Printer Access Protocol

papd — AppleTalk print server daemon

papd.conf — Configuration file used by papd(8) to determine the configuration of printers used by the Netatalk printing daemon

papstatus — get the status of an AppleTalk-connected printer

psf — PostScript filter

psorder — PostScript pageorder filter

timelord — Macintosh time server daemon

uniconv — convert Netatalk volume encoding

Index