Installing Netatalk 3 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 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)"
Then install the dependencies:
brew install berkeley-db libtool automake autoconf libevent libgcrypt mysql [email protected] libressl pkg-config
Then clone the Netatalk repository and cd to that folder:
git clone https://github.com/Netatalk/netatalk.git
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
To compile run the following commands:
./bootstrap
./configure --with-ssl-dir=/path/to/openssl/installation --with-bdb=/path/to/bdb/installation
If ./configure fails because it can’t find libevent, you may need to export the path to libevent‘s pkgconfig:
export PKG_CONFIG_PATH="/opt/homebrew/opt/libevent/lib/pkgconfig"
make
To install:
sudo make install
To enable the launchd daemon
sudo launchctl enable system/com.netatalk.daemon
launchctl start netatalk
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Last updated 2024-05-09
