I want to share file from my linux box to OSX clients. I don’t want to use SMB ! I’m using netatalk 2.1.2 but apparently there is a filname length limitation : I’ve tried “123456789012345678901234567.avi” (31 characters long), and it works but when the filename is >31 char long. Some programs like Quicktime can’t open … Read more
I am having trouble with my netatalk server 3.0.1 on FreeBSD-9.1 RELEASE. Netatalk was installed from the ports collection and is sharing some directories over the network. Update also netatalk version 3.0.2 has the same problems on my machine afpd.conf [Global] ; Global server settings [Homes] basedir regex = /home home name = $f – … Read more
I have a few Mac clients connected to a Linux server running Netatalk 3.1.1. The server is connected to an AD domain, the clients are currently not. Previously all users were connecting under a single user account and everything worked relatively well. We attempted to introduce the new concept that every user should have their … Read more
I am running Netatalk 3.14dev on Ubuntu 14.04. This box is being used as a webserver and we already have a Samba share pointed at the /var/www folder to allow our developers to work on sites hosted on the server. The Samba share is configured to allow full guest read/write access, and files created / … Read more
I have an Ubuntu 14.04 server running Netatalk 3.1.7. It’s serving files to 3-4 other computers running a mixture of OSX Yosemite and Windows 7 (the latter connects via Samba rather than Netatalk). My question is should all of these machines be authenticating via separate user accounts, or is it okay for them to connect … Read more
Is there a way to have my remote server talking to my mac via bonjour? Avahi and netatalk are configured and ready using afp. Tried with opnvpn without success. Also tried with the dns-sd server setup but I’m confused… FYI: Root Server with Ubuntu 14.04 and a static IP Answer What type of interface did … Read more
I installed netatalk on my Ubuntu Server a few weeks ago and configured it so that I could use Timemachine from my mac to backup on a server instead of a external hard drive. It worked really good until yesterday when I installed Samba to be able to share certain folders on my server to … Read more
Our Centos 7.1.503 server, running Netatalk recently ran to full disk capacity and our macs couldn’t save files. I rebooted it and removed some (non-system) files but now the Netatalk share isn’t available on the network. What’s the procedure for diagnosing this problem and fixing it? To complicate matters we recently moved premises and changed … Read more
i have a netatalk server running on ubuntu server 10.04.1. connecting and moving files works generally, but, when connecting / authenticating the server needs so much time. when i connect using my mac (10.6), the login prompt comes up quickly, but when entered the credentials, it takes like 10sec “Connecting…” till the share comes up. … Read more
My question is regarding the file system performance of EXT4 volumes relative to size. We have a NAS running any arbitrary Linux platform. The NAS has (12) 4TB disks in a hardware RAID 6 with LVM resulting in approximately 40 TB of usable storage. The NAS is a file server (netatalk and samba). As the … Read more
