Netatalk Manual

Table of Contents

1. Introduction

Legal Notice

Overview of Netatalk

2. Installation

How to obtain Netatalk

Compiling Netatalk

3. Setting up Netatalk

File Services

AppleTalk

Printing

Time Services

Starting and stopping Netatalk

4. Upgrading from Netatalk 1.x

Overview

Volumes and filenames

Choosing a CNID storage scheme

Setting up a test server on the same machine

5. Manual Pages

a2boot — Apple II netboot server daemon

ad — AppleDouble file utility suite

aecho — send AppleTalk Echo Protocol packets to network hosts

afp_ldap.conf — Configuration file used by afpd(8) to configure connections to an LDAP server

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 volumes

afpd — Apple Filing Protocol daemon

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

afpldaptest — Syntactically check an afp_ldap.conf

afppasswd — AFP Random Number UAM password maintenance utility

apple_dump — Dump AppleSingle/AppleDouble format data

AppleVolumes.default — Configuration file(s) used by afpd(8) to determine the shared volumes made available through AFP

asip-status — Queries AFP servers for their capabilities

atalk — AppleTalk protocol family

atalkd — userland AppleTalk network manager daemon

atalkd.conf — Configuration file used by atalkd(8) to configure the interfaces used by AppleTalk

atalk_aton — AppleTalk address parsing

cnid_dbd — CNID database access daemon

cnid_metad — daemon for starting cnid_dbd(8) daemons on demand

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 certain Netatalk init scripts

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

A. GNU General Public License

Preamble

TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR COPYING, DISTRIBUTION AND MODIFICATION

How to Apply These Terms to Your New Programs

Index