Anyone using netatalk and afp? I cannot get it running.

[Joel Nilsson]

I don't know; my problem is with netatalk per se and not the Time Machine feature. The rc script (or netatalk manually started) doesn't start cnid_metad and afpd. I have tried to start them manually but then I ran into other problems related to the database. I spend some hours yesterday tinkering with the configuration and permissions, without success.

I drop this now and go to one of my alternative solutions: Using another (better) program than Apple Time Machine to do backups; that will allow me to use a NFS or SAMBA share instead. Another option would be to buy a Time Capsule but it feels so superfluous when I got a nice DragonFly system already running with a large datapool. :)

/Joel


On 21 jan 2014, at 00:53, John Marino <dragonflybsd at marino.st> wrote:

> On 1/18/2014 18:07, Joel Nilsson wrote:
>> Hello.
>> 
>> I cannot get netatalk3 and afp to work on my DragonFly server and I would only like to use it for Time Machine from my Mac clients.
>> 
>> I have installed dbus, avahi and netatalk3 through Dports and started the services in the same order.
>> 
>> However, nothing happens when I do a rcstart of netatalk and there are not a single character in /var/log/messages about it.
>> 
>> I have tried to start afpd manually and that works to some part: The share appears in OS X but I am not allowed to connect to it and there are a lot of errors in messages.
>> 
>> What have I missed? My previously experience is only with netatalk2 on OpenBSD some years ago and on TomatoUSB on my parents "router".
>> 
> 
> Hi Joel,
> Maybe this was the problem?
> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/svn-ports-head/2014-January/043206.html
> 
> John