Installing Netatalk on OmniOS
Install Netatalk
The unofficial OpenCSW package repository for Solaris and Solaris-likes distributes a netatalk binary package that can be installed through their package manager.
For building and installing from source yourself, for instance to get a newer version, follow the guides linked here.
Dependencies
Note that Netatalk 3.x and 4.x require libevent v2 which is not distributed with vanilla OmniOS. Therefore applying the SmartOS bootstrap layer is recommended to get modern libraries, including Meson, Tracker, Libgcrypt etc. This process is described in the Compile chapter linked above.
An alternative route is to build libevent v2 from scratch, which should theoretically work but has not been demonstrated (yet). The libevent build system uses CMake.
Beyond this, the following should get you started with Netatalk 4.x:
Prepare environment
pkg install bdb bison build-essential flex ninja pkg-config
/usr/lib/python3.12/bin/pip install meson
Configure and compile
meson setup build \
-Dbuildtype=release \
-Dwith-bdb-path=/opt/ooce \
-Dwith-dbus-sysconf-path=/usr/share/dbus-1/system.d
meson compile -C build
meson install -C build
Starting and stopping
Start Netatalk.
svcadm enable svc:/network/netatalk:default
Stop Netatalk.
svcadm disable svc:/network/netatalk:default
PAM support
OmniOS uses an old-school PAM configuration, so manual modification of /etc/pam.conf is required
See one example in this blog post titled OmniOS: Netatalk with PAM Authentication
Footnotes
This is a mirror of the Netatalk GitHub Wiki. Please visit the original page if you want to correct an error or contribute new contents.
Last updated 2025-09-07
