Installing Netatalk 2 on macOS
Apple started to switch from AFP to SMB file sharing from Mavericks (10.9) onwards. The built-in afp server was finally removed in Big Sur (11.0) so Netatalk comes in useful if you have a modern Intel or Apple Silicon Mac and wish to share files with a vintage Mac such as a PowerMac G3 or G4 running classic Mac OS 9.
When installing Netatalk 2.3 on Macs running Mojave (10.14) onwards the dependencies are easily installed using Homebrew. To install Homebrew, open Terminal and paste the following:
/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsS https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)"
Install the dependencies
brew install berkeley-db libtool automake autoconf libevent libgcrypt mysql [email protected] libressl pkg-config
Clone the Netatalk repository
Checkout the 2.3 branch and cd to that folder:
git clone https://github.com/Netatalk/netatalk.git
git checkout branch-netatalk-2-3
cd /path/to/netatalk/clone
The paths for your SSL and BDB installations can be found by typing
brew --prefix berkeley-db
brew --prefix [email protected] or brew --prefix libressl
Compile and run
./bootstrap
./configure --disable-ddp --with-ssl-dir=/path/to/openssl/installation --with-bdb=/path/to/bdb/installation
make
Note: The --disable-ddp flag is required, since macOS doesn’t have an AppleTalk network stack at the time of writing.
Install
sudo make install
Enable the launchd daemon
sudo launchctl enable system/io.netatalk.daemon
launchctl start netatalk
Underneath the hood we use a controller script called netatalkd that sets up the required environment.
To start netatalk daemons:
sudo netatalkd start
To stop netatalk daemons:
sudo netatalkd stop
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Last updated 2024-05-09
