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Installing Netatalk 2 on Fedora Linux
Netatalk 2.2 works well on Fedora (tested on Fedora 38 and 39 for x86-64) with just a few wrinkles. The steps are the same for Fedora Workstation and Fedora Server. This guide does not replace the full documentation; instead it supplements it.
First up, the prerequisites. Install them with this command:
dnf install openssl-devel libgcrypt-devel libdb-devel automake libtool avahi-devel cups-devel
After that, untar netatalk and go into its directory. (I'm using 2.2.10 here as an example, adjust the filenames as required for other versions).
Type tar jxvf netatalk-2.2.10.tar.bz2
to untar and then cd netatalk-2.2.10
When configuring, use the --enable-redhat-systemd
option:
./configure --enable-redhat-systemd
Build netatalk (you can change the number 4 to the number of CPU cores you have to get the fastest possible compile):
make -j4
And install (you must be root here or use sudo
):
make install
Once installed, you'll need to remove Fedora's default blacklist of the atalk kernel module, by typing the following, either when logged in as root or with sudo
:
rm /etc/modprobe.d/appletalk-blacklist.conf
This will allow Fedora to load the atalk
kernel module.
The configuration files after install can be found in /usr/local/etc/netatalk
.
For afpd.conf
, here's an example server line that I use.
"Gozer" -transall -uamlist uams_guest.so,uams_clrtxt.so,uams_dhx2.so
This names the server "Gozer" when it appears in the Chooser on connected Macs and allows either guest access or access by logging in with a valid username and password on your Fedora system. This works well for Mac System 7 and 8 clients (both real and emulated) all the way up to present day macOS Sonoma (press Command-K in the Finder and type afp://
followed by the IP address or DNS name of your Fedora system). If you are not going to connect with a System 7 client, it is strongly recommended to remove uams_clrtxt.so
from your server config line for security reasons.
To set up shared volumes, edit AppleVolumes.default
. Here is an example line that I use.
/data/A2 Apple_II
This causes a volume named "Apple_II" to appear to connected machines, and its files come from the UNIX path /data/A2.
Resources
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- Installing Netatalk 3 on macOS
- Installing Netatalk 3 on OpenBSD
- Installing Netatalk 3 on OpenIndiana
- Installing Netatalk 3 on openSUSE
- Installing Netatalk 3 on Solaris
- Installing Netatalk 3 on Ubuntu
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- Installing Netatalk 2 on Alpine Linux
- Installing Netatalk 2 on Debian Linux
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- Installing Netatalk 2 on macOS
- Installing Netatalk 2 on NetBSD
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