ClearFoundation

@ Len

Len can you guide me, how to install netatalk on ClearOS? I've read the link you provided, but there installing netatalk on Ubuntu system. I'm a Linux newbie so help is very appreciated!

Hi there Marcel first off I use vi to edit my files so if you are unfamiliar with it you can use a text editor of your own choice. First of all you need to install the Berkely Database this can be done using yum.

yum install db4 db4-devel

download and install netatalk 2.0.5 from netatalk.sourceforge.net/
I downloaded the bzip2 file

tar jxf netatalk-2.0.5.tar.bz2

cd netatalk-2.0.5

./configure --enable-redhat --with-mutex=x86/gcc-assembly

make && make install

vi /usr/local/etc/netatalk/netatalk.conf

Find the “#Set which daemons to run” part and replace the default values with these to enable just AFP and disable all unneeded services.

ATALKD_RUN=no
PAPD_RUN=no
CNID_METAD_RUN=yes
AFPD_RUN=yes
TIMELORD_RUN=no
A2BOOT_RUN=no

save the file.

vi /usr/local/etc/netatalk/afpd.conf

Scroll to the very bottom of the document and add this to the bottom (replace the whole line in case there’s already one). This is one line so be sure that there’s no line break in your afpd.conf file;

- -transall -uamlist uams_randnum.so,uams_dhx.so -nosavepassword -advertise_ssh

save the file

vi /usr/local/etc/netatalk/AppleVolumes.default

Scroll to the bottom of the document and define your Volume shares.

~/ "$u" allow:username1,username2 cnidscheme:cdb

Because we want to use the ClearOS machine as a backup server for Time Machine you should define a second volume just for Time Machine. Create a new folder in your home directory first and name it TimeMachine (or anything you like). Then add the following line to your AppleVolumes.default. This is one line so be sure that there’s no line break in your AppleVolumes.default file:

/home/username/TimeMachine TimeMachine allow:username1,username2 cnidscheme:cdb options:usedots,upriv

The usedots option is required if you want to use invisible files and folders (those starting with a dot in the name). Otherwise afpd would encode them as :2e which is bad if you have to use invisible files (like .htaccess). If you’re on Leopard and have no Tiger installed Macs in your network or mixed OS X versions in your network you should use the upriv option which adds support for AFP3 unix privileges. If you have Macs with Tiger installed just use options:usedots to avoid unexpected behavior:

/etc/init.d/atalk start

yum install avahi.i386 nss-mdns.i386

vi /etc/nsswitch.conf

Just add “mdns” at the end of the line that starts with “hosts:”. Now the line should look like this:

hosts: files mdns4_minimal [NOTFOUND=return] dns mdns4 mdns

Create the afpd.service file

vi /etc/avahi/services/afpd.service

and add this;

<?xml version="1.0" standalone='no'?><!--*-nxml-*-->
<!DOCTYPE service-group SYSTEM "avahi-service.dtd">
<service-group>
<name replace-wildcards="yes">%h</name>
<service>
<type>_afpovertcp._tcp</type>
<port>548</port>
</service>
<service>
<type>_device-info._tcp</type>
<port>0</port>
<txt-record>model=Xserve</txt-record>
</service>
</service-group>

/etc/init.d/avahi-daemon restart

Nearly done

On the Mac side you have to enable the option to use network volumes as Time Machine drives first. Without it your freshly shared and advertised network volume won’t show up in the disk selection dialogue in Time Machine. This is a hidden option not accessible via the graphical user interface so you have to copy & paste this in Terminal (it’s one line):

defaults write com.apple.systempreferences TMShowUnsupportedNetworkVolumes 1

Massive thanks to kremalicious for providing most parts of this tut hope you don't mind me taking it . Original howto can be found here

Hi NeoNapster,


Thanks for your explanation. I appreciated it!

When i execute this command:


I'll get this error:


Must i install a C compiler? Any idea?

Yes Marcel "yum install gcc" should sort you out.

Another option is use sparse bundle and send it on its merry way to smb shares

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sparse_image

Yes you could manually do this using sparse bundle

man hdiutil

I like many others don't have much free time on my hands to waste doing backups manually and prefer to spend 30 mins setting up a server to get it all automated for me, so I think I'll let Time Machine do all the work.

This tutorial can also be found at
www.kremalicious.com/2008/06/ubuntu-as-m...time-machine-volume/
for ubuntu

xiambax wrote:
This tutorial can also be found at
www.kremalicious.com/2008/06/ubuntu-as-m...time-machine-volume/
for ubuntu

Yes and if you fully read my original post I do give credit to Kremalicious and give a link to the site.

I am having trouble with this where do I add

/home/username/TimeMachine TimeMachine allow:username1,username2 cnidscheme:cdb options:upriv

in the
/usr/local/etc/netatalk/AppleVolumes.default file

is it on the same line as ~/ "$u" allow:username1,username2 cnidscheme:cdb (at the bottom) or do it modifiy that line to become

~/ "$u" allow: /home/username/TimeMachine TimeMachine allow:username1,username2 cnidscheme:cdb options:upriv

Running mix of 10.5 and 10.6 which I should use :upriv instead of usedots I guess

Anyone had any sucess creating a flexshare with afp options out of interest

I have also noticed that while the Netatalk daemon is running manually and can be started or stopped via ssh, it shows up in services in webconfig as "not started" and content in pink shows Netatalk not installed.