Installing netatalk on Centos5

Installing netatalk on Centos 5 is actually fairly easy, once you figure out the packages that need to be installed. Here's the basic steps:

1) in /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo, under the [centosplus] section, make sure you have the following line:
enabled=1

2) Run the following commands:


yum update
yum install netatalk netatalk-devel


3) reboot in order for any kernel modules and all that to get into there.

Now, you'll need to configure netatalk. The configuration files are all in:

/etc/atalk


There are only 2 files to really be concerned about.

1) AppleVolumes.default
at the bottom of the file, if you want to enable home directories, have, on a single line, the following:

~

If you want to create a shared directory, have something like the following:

/path/to/directory "Name of the Volume" options:tm


2) afpd.conf

At the bottom of the file, have a line similar to this:

"Name of Volume" -transall -uamlist uams_guest.so,uams_clrtxt.so,uams_dhx.so -nosavepassword

Then, just use the /etc/init.d/netatalk script to start up everything.

You should now be able to connect up to the Appletalk server using the ip address.

The next part is if you want the server to show up normally under the Appletalk network.

1) install the avahi software:

yum install avahi avahi-devel

2) modify /etc/avahi/services/afpd.services to have something like the following:

 <?xml version="1.0" standalone='no'?>  
 <!DOCTYPE service-group SYSTEM "avahi-service.dtd">  
 <service-group>  
  <name replace-wildcards="yes">[Your Volume Name]</name>  
  <service>  
   <type>_afpovertcp._tcp</type>  
   <port>548</port>  
  </service>  
  <service>  
   <type>_device-info._tcp</type>  
   <port>0</port>  
   <txt-record>model=Xserve</txt-record>  
  </service>  
 </service-group>  

3) Finally, restart the messagebus and the avahi service, in that order:

/etc/init.d/messagebus restart
/etc/init.d/avahi restart