Netatalk 2.2 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

3. Setting up Netatalk

File Services

Setting up the AFP file server

CNID backends

Charsets/Unicode

Authentication

ACL Support

AppleTalk

To use AppleTalk or not

No AppleTalk routing

atalkd acting as an AppleTalk router

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 Netatalk 1.x

Overview

Volumes and filenames

How to upgrade a volume to 2.x

How to use a 1.x CAP encoded volume with 2.x

How to use a 1.x NLS volume with 2.x

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

a2boot — Apple II netboot server

ad — Netatalk compatible UNIX file utility suite.

aecho — send AppleTalk Echo Protocol packets to network hosts

afp_ldap.conf — Configuration file used by afpd(8) to configure a LDAP connection to an LDAP server. That is needed for ACL support in order to be able to query LDAP for UUIDs.

afp_signature.conf — Configuration file used by afpd(8) to specify server signature

afp_voluuid.conf — Configuration file used by afpd(8) to specify UUID for Time Machine volume

afpd — Apple Filing Protocol daemon

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

afpldaptest — Syntactically check an afp_ldap.conf

afppasswd — netatalk password maintenance utility

AppleVolumes.default — Configuration file used by afpd(8) to determine the shares made available through AFP and specify file name extension mappings.

apple_dump — Dump AppleSingle/AppleDouble format data

asip-status — 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_metad — start cnid_dbd daemons on request

cnid2_create — Convert CNID 1 database to CNID 2

dbd — CNID database maintenance

getzones — list AppleTalk zone names

macusers — List the users connecting via AFP

megatron — Macintosh file format transformer

nbp — access NBP database

nbp_name — NBP name parsing

netatalk.conf — Configuration file used by the Netatalk init script 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

showppd — Show the contents of a PPD file

timelord — Macintosh time server daemon

uniconv — convert Netatalk volume encoding

Index