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A quick tally on the Netatalk v4 adoption in downstream distribution channels: The OSes and 3rd party repos that now distribute a version of Netatalk 4 are... Arch Linux Debian GNU/Linux Devuan GNU+Linux Fedora Homebrew Kali Linux Mageia Linux NetBSD OpenBSD OpenWrt PureOS Raspberry Pi OS...

What you can do is to mount the shared netatalk volume on any macOS or OSX machine, extract whatever data you want from dmg files and copy them onto the shared volume from where the 68k Macs can access them. You can accomplish this with something like the TashTalk, which is created by a...

FWIW, a modern Linux or NetBSD machine running netatalk 4.x is arguably a better and more reliable bridge machine for old Macs, than an old Mac with OS9. (And yes, as a netatalk maintainer I am biased.)

In concrete terms, I would say that most of these classic Mac OS bus errors mean that you're running slightly incompatible software for the hardware, or a combination of software that don't play well together. Try disabling as many Extensions and Control Panels as possible and see if the system...

Did you have to do any configuration in the CUPS admin interface, select the printer, and so on? Or was printing to your LaserWriter plug'n'play once you had installed the pap backend? Did you have to edit cups.conf as well? What is the exact model of LaserWriter, for our reference? I'm...

It is kind of a miraculous feeling when hardware from such different eras interoperate, isn't it! So I found the source of the CUPS pap backend configuration, namely this article on the EMaculation wiki. The tarball with the backend configuration and license text are available for download...

This explains it. I’ll add the info to our wiki page.

Hmm, all of this shouldn't be required. If CUPS is aware of your printer, you should only have to put cupsautoadd:op=root: in papd.conf and that's it. See this guide that I wrote some time ago: https://netatalk.io/docs/Print-Server

You are correct, both CUPS and papd need to be configured. For papd, the papd.conf file must have the cupsautoadd directive with f.e. root owner. A while ago I wrote this guide on configuration and troubleshooting of papd and CUPS: https://netatalk.io/docs/Print-Server

I'm not familiar with a /usr/lib/cups/backend/pap file. Is it a plain text or binary file? This is not something that Netatalk creates or touches directly.

@mactjaap Regarding Fizzbin's problem, do you remember if you had all CUPS dependencies installed when you built netatalk? It is possible to build papd without CUPS, at which time you get a traditional BSD line printer daemon interface instead.

I recommend you find resources that explain the general upsides of 64 bit addressing and instructions better than I can (or ask ChatGPT.) But the primary reason in my mind that you should run 64 bit software, is that most people develop and test on 64 bit machines exclusively, and generally...

It’s more important to run a 64 bit operating system on your RPi than to have docker for netatalk. IMHO. Building from source is not hard.

Good to see a refresh of maciprpi! I'm curious what base OS you're using now? It's also encouraging to see that you're on a supported and secure release version of netatalk now. May I ask what it would take for you to migrate to the netatalk 4.x release series? Is there some technical reason...

IINM the RPi 3 series has a 64 bit CPU. You should be using the 64 bit version of the OS. ...but for some bizarre reason, Docker Engine only supports 32 bit RPi OS. So it might not be the best choice for your setup after all. Due some time later this year, the next major RPi OS release is...

Yeah I was going to say: you already have a powerful file sharing protocol at your fingertips there thanks to Netatalk. ;)

If you start a new GitHub Discussions thread, we can try a little troubleshooting again, if you like. I bet the "DDP/IP situation" referred to the now-removed IPDDP Linux kernel module. It conflicted with macipgw operation.

Please remind me: Were you able to get around to trying a more recent FTP client (late 90s-ish) that can do passive mode? I don't think it's feasible to use active FTP over a NAT'ed bridge, but passive FTP should theoretically work fine.

@Mk.558 It's worth calling out that two features that you requested are in the 4.1.0 release version. Namely, a macipgw.conf configuration file. And, the new tabbed interface in the Webmin module. Check the updated macipgw manual page for an example of the configuration file. This allows you...

These improvements to macOS interoperability are included in netatalk 4.1.0 which I tagged and released moments ago. Check out the release notes and grab the tarballs at: https://github.com/Netatalk/netatalk/releases/tag/netatalk-4-1-0 This version will trickle downstream to Homebrew and...