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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

The current Netatalk release series (2.x and 3.x) are finally in a good place where we have a modern and flexible build system, with fully functioning user authentication. I can finally pivot to what I wanted to do in the first place: consolidate the best of 2.x and 3.x into one Mac file sharing...

Netatalk 2.4.4 is available. This is yet again a build system bugfix release, working towards stabilizing Debian deb packaging. If Netatalk is working fine for you, take this is an optional upgrade. At this point, I consider the current Netatalk release series (2.4.x, 3.2.x) stable and "done"...

AFP in Synology hardware is indeed Netatalk under the hood. They used to be a big patch contributor to the project until they dropped AFP support some two years ago.

As the maintainer of Netatalk, I of course encourage you to give Netatalk ago, despite the perceived difficulty curve. :) If you have a spare Linux box or RPi sitting around, you can even spin up a pre-configured Docker container that... should "just work" out of the box with AppleTalk and...

I'm already publishing unofficial debs for Bookworm over at GitHub that you can sideload today. Actually getting Debian to distribute netatalk2 is a bit of a longer project... Getting attention and sponsorship is an uphill battle!

Version 2.4.3 is out now. This is mainly a Meson build system feature and bugfix release, as part of my effort to deliver Debian deb packaging of Netatalk. It fixes fun stuff such as Kerberos API checks, 64 bit architecture detection, library runpaths, pkgconfdir overrides, and support for...

From what I understand, the nature of the GPL license is that its copyleft provisions apply not just to code that you do static linking with, but also via dynamic linking. I haven't found any first hand legal write-up that describes this mechanism, though. Reading through the FSF's list of...

Continuing the saga of old-school encryption in Netatalk, we released version 2.4.2 today which addresses a licensing issue raised by the Debian project. As a result, we have reverted to relying on OpenSSL/LibreSSL with the bundled SSL provider... for the CAST algorithm only. This is only a...

Thanks for sharing your story! Enjoy your old school Mac file sharing.

Which guides did you try already, and where do you get stuck? What kinds of error messages are you seeing? The general flow is something like: Stop the old version of Netatalk first. (e.g. "sudo systemctl stop afpd atalkd"). Build and install the software. The Compile Netatalk manual appendix...

Netatalk 2.4.1 has been released today! It contains a patch for a published CVE vulnerability, so it's recommended to upgrade your 2.x deployment, especially if serves a public IP. We also restore support for SLP (Server Location Protocol) in the Meson build system, for those who you like to...

MacPorts has a netatalk port that you can try out. It's a little old, and might not work well on Apple Silicon, but it should do the job. If you have Docker Engine (Desktop) on you Mac you can pull and run an official Netatalk container. Compiling from source is still the recommended way. It's...

If your OS is up to date enough, I warmly suggests trying out the new Meson build system! And if your OS'es package manager is shipping a too old version of Meson (like.... say Solaris 11), you can try to install it with Python pip instead to get a newer version. We have a new Compile appendix...

The Netatalk team is proud to present version 2.4.0 of the venerable AFP file sharing suite. Grab the source code, or a Docker image, today! This version is primarily a future-proofing release, introducing the modern Meson build system, while integrating an embedded WolfSSL as the encryption...