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The webmin module uses the standard webmin config scheme, so it can be set to look for netatalk binaries and config files at arbitrary locations. This should not be a problem. One correction to my previous post: we don’t actually use the init system but rather start afpd/netatalk (in...

@ironborn65 So if I understand your suggestion correctly, you would set up a separate Docker container that runs only webmin, which then mounts the file system of the netatalk container to access the netatalk config files? Two challenges to overcome for this to work, off the top of my head...

@ironborn65 You're welcome! Thank you for using netatalk. If I understand the question correctly, you're asking why I chose Docker bind mounts over Docker volumes in the docker-compose.yml example? If this is the question, the answer is: because bind mounts are self-managed and independent of a...

Netatalk ships two tools - nbprgstr and nbpunrgstr - that registers and unregisters NBP names on the AppleTalk network, respectively. The technical reason you are seeing the "Workstation" NBP name for your server, is because the particular init script you're using runs nbprgstr after launching...

Correction: I couldn't get it to work properly with fuse 2.9.9 either.

+1 for afpfs-ng. Earlier this year I made a fork to modernize the code base, normalize the various abandoned forks and community patches, and get it compiling and running again. Alas, I was only able to get the interactive AFP client working reliably. The fuse file system layer isn’t working...

Nicely done! If you haven't done this already, I would recommend you also install and build with: libssl-dev (for DHX secure Classic Mac OS auth), libcups2-dev (for AppleTalk printing), libavahi-client-dev (for Zeroconf service discovery) and libpam0g-dev (for more secure auth.)

What version of the RPi OS are you running? As you can see in a subsequent post in that thread, Bullseye or older will require different steps to build netatalk.

Thanks to NJRoadfan's efforts, AppleTalk is now once more enabled in the main branch, almost 13 years after the previous maintainers started removing it! I just pushed another changeset that brings back all of the AppleTalk init scripts, so the low hanging fruit have all truly been picked at...

Awesome work so far! This is shaping up nicely. I'll keep an eye out for when you flag your PR as ready for review. My only requirement is that the codebase compiles in its default configuration, and that afpd can start up.

There is still a lot of work left to do, mind you! This was the easy part, I anticipate... In all honesty, we have been doing a lot of preparatory work over the last several months, in particular dgsga's hard work backporting the Meson build system to 2.x, plenty of modernization and removal of...

The PR that brings back all the AppleTalk code has been merged to main now, but disabled by default in the build system. This should allow us to tackle specific improvement areas one by one from now on. I started creating GitHub issue tickets for the known tasks. Please don't hesitate to add...

Cheers, this was helpful! I've been mostly noodling with the Meson build scripts lately, which consist of domain-specific pseudo-Python that takes a bit of getting used to. With the AppleTalk restoration project we will be heading into proper C coding shortly.

Cheers! Thanks for all your guidance in the past. When you get a chance to try again, I'd love to know if the BerkeleyDB lib dir error on NetBSD went away for you or not.

Excellent! So for one you can start watching the GitHub project and lean in when you see a PR pop up. And, I'm going to ping you if I put up a particularly complex and risky one that could really use a second set of eyes...

I hear ya. Are you in a more stable situation now? Last year was one of many life events for me too and I had to effectively drop all my retro hardware tinkering projects and get rid of most of my collection on short notice. Netatalk has been a nice diversion and a way to keep a mental foot in...

Thank you for the kind words! It's the thrill of the problem solving that keeps me going. And the response from the community of course. I'm able to keep going for now, but my time and energy is definitely a limited resource. My collaborator Dave, who was the driving force behind many of the...

MacIP is still on my radar. What I want to aim for is an independent macipgw that can easily be linked with netatalk's libatalk. For starters, I'm looking into improving the Debian packaging of netatalk so that you can install the dev headers and shared libraries, lowering the bar to building...

That's a great idea! Don't hesitate to lean in and... err... design said interface to fit your project's needs precisely. ;)

Which specific minor bugfix version of Mac OS 7.5 are you running? AFP-over-TCP works fine on Mac OS 7.5.x if you install a compatible AppleShare Client, but there is a very fine-grained compatibility matrix that you have to follow. See f.e. https://macintoshgarden.org/apps/appleshare-client-372