Re: Questions about Netatalk running on Debian server
On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 5:14 PM, Paul E Condon <pecondon@mesanetworks.net> wrote:
> On 20120506_230937, Paul E Condon wrote:
>>
>> I have a long and troubled relation to Netatalk. I live in a family
>> where everyone else loves the Mac, and I have a need to communicate
>> with them. I once had netatalk running on Debian back in 2004, I
>> think, but lost that ability about the time my daughter bought her
>> first MacBook in 2006. I'm revisiting the problem now using an i386
>> box running Wheezy.
>>
>> I've installed netatalk from a Debian repository and started looking
>> at /usr/share/doc/netatalk and the looking for a man page. The
>> .../doc/netatalk files all date from 2010 or earlier, which is well
>> before the version of netatalk in Wheezy was released. There is not
>> 'man netatalk', but there is a 'man netatalk.conf', and that page
>> begins with:
>>
>> " SYNOPSIS
>> /etc/netatalk/netatalk.conf "
>>
>> But no such file was installed by the netatalk package, and I can find
>> no mention of netatalk.conf at .../doc/netatalk/
>>
>> According to Aptitude, the version of netatalk that I installed
>> is 2.2.2-1. From searching the web, I pick up statements that
>> things do work in it that never worked before. But I can't see
>> anything different in the documentation. I remember that, when I
>> did have it working long ago, I didn't have to do anything in
>> order to have it advertise its services and to have it actually
>> serve files. My problems then were with serving a printer. Now I
>> use CUPS for that. But I don't see my Macs picking up an advert.
>> (They do pickup adverts from one of the Macs, so I know that they
>> are listening.)
>>
>> So, my questions:
>>
>> Does anyone have netatalk 2.2.2-1 working under Wheezy? Can you point
>> me to some debugging instructions? Or, can you lead me through some
>> tests to discover what is going wrong?
> I posted this, below, a couple of days ago. I'm hoping to find someone
> who follows this list and who actually has netatalk v. 2.2.2-1
> installed from the Debian package in Wheezy. I would very much like to
> get it working, but ... I can't. All the documentation that I can find
> is two or more years old, and does not pertain to the packaged
> version.
>
> P.S. Thanks Tom, but I need more than the fact that
> /etc/netatalk/netatalk.conf once existed as part of an earlier version
> of the package. It may still be part of a properly configured
> netatalk, but it doesn't seem to be included in this package.
Please bottom-post.
You misunderstood. I said that I remember that the config files on
Debian are "/etc/default/netatalk" and /etc/netatalk/afpd.conf".
Perhaps I should've also said that I remember
"/etc/netatalk/netatalk.conf" to be the Fedora equivalent of
"/etc/default/netatalk".
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