Subject: [netatalk-admins] netatalk compiled! (Re: netatalk under os X? (fwd))
From: Ryan Thomas (rthomas@uiuc.edu)
Date: Wed Aug 18 1999 - 00:54:26 EDT
Sorry for the cross-post. This thread showed up on both lists; I think
this post is relevant to both lists; and I imagine the subscriber lists are
relatively exclusive of one another.
I got netatalk to compile and work on osx. Wish I had seen
<src>/sys/osx/Makefile earlier. With all of the posts to macosx and
netatalk lists about compiling netatalk on mosx, I don't understand why no
one referred to it earlier. (?)
For the benefit of the list here are the first few lines from
<src>/sys/osx/Makefile:
# stuff for os x server. This needs some include files from the darwin
# source to work properly. namely, it needs /usr/include/at,
# /usr/include/h, and
# /System/Library/Frameworks/LibcAT/Headers/at_proto.h. The first two are
# found in the kernel sources while the last one is found in LibcAT.
My interpretation:
# To compile on OS X Server, you need to acquire headers from darwin:
# http://www.publicsource.apple.com/projects/darwin/projects.html
# Download and unpack kernel and LibcAT tarballs.
# From kernel, copy all netat/h headers (bsd/netat/h/*.h) to /usr/include/h
# From kernel, copy all netat/at headers (bsd/netat/at/*.h) to /usr/include/at
# From LibcAT, copy at_proto.h to /System/Library/Frameworks/LibcAT/Headers/
Disable Apple's AppleFileServer and related webadmin processes
(/etc/startup/1600...), copy over default .conf and AppleVolume files to
ETCDIR and enter afpovertcp service into netinfo:
[irving:~] rthomas% niutil -read . /services/afpovertcp
name: afpovertcp
port: 548
protocol: tcp,udp
Then, to test afpd, execute /<your install path>/afpd -d.
Mine was choking on the test for DHX auth -- I had to modify the
AppleVolumes.default file to remove DHX from default list of uams.
Voila, access your home dir from your Mac (via AFP/IP).
There's no chooser listing, and it's passing passwords in the clear -- but
it's compiled and working. Now on to DHX!
Other things I learned that might help others, especially those like me who
are new to unix and netatalk:
* kill -HUP afpd hoses afpd; but it seems AppleVolumes.* can be changed
without killing afpd.
* issuing "tail /var/log/system.log" a lot causes system to crash regularly
(syslogd bug?) -- yes, on macos-x-server 1.0.2. Minimize the need for this
by using -d switch for initial testing.
* I don't know why this is, but volumes configured in AppleVolumes.default
(e.g., "/home/httpdocs Web") seem to cause afpd to break if you test
immediately after modifying the AppleVolumes.default file, giving a
misleading error message (don't remember what exactly) when you log
in. But if you give it a minute, a correctly config'ed volume should show up.
-Ryan
At 03:26 PM 8/9/99 -0700, you wrote:
> A) Am I right in assuming that if all I need is AFP for sharing a UFS
> filesystem, I don't need atalkd, just afpd?
>
>yep.
>
> B) I just tried compiling netatalk (Adrian's most recent snapshot) on OS X
> to see what headers it was lacking (as Adrian indicated, quote below) and
> got this:
>
>get the missing headers from the darwin source. i think you need the
>libcAT and kernel bits.
>
>-a
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