I'm running Debian stable (mostly) on my home server on an x86 box, and a
nearly identical setup on my parents' home server (which I administer) on a
Mac G4 tower. I recently built a netatalk package with OpenSSL (there are
licensing issues, which is why I had to build it myself) on both systems,
with identical dependencies. I also installed and configured identically
the avahi daemon to advertise the shares. The goal is to allow my wife's
Mac laptop to use our home server's RAID as a Time Machine backup, which
seems to work beautifully, and to allow my father's Mac laptop to use their
home server's RAID as a Time Machine backup, which doesn't work at all.
I'm betting on some kind of unpleasant endianness issue with netatalk.
There are two symptoms of the problem at my parents' house: the share isn't
an option in the Time Machine control panel, and manually logging into the
share fails on a bad password (even though I am using afppasswd to set the
password explicitly and I am certain I am typing it correctly).
Has anyone else had any luck with netatalk (supporting OpenSSL) on PPC?
--Greg