/Guides/OpenBSD/Networking/

General Information

This short how-to gives you the instructions to install and configure an OpenBSD 3.8 machine as a fileserver for Apple's Macintosh Computers.

Requirements

1. A running OpenBSD 3.8 installation
   
2. wget must be installed (from the packages)
   
3. Berkeley-DB must be installed (instructions here included)

Installation

Download and install the Berkeley-DB (aka SleepyCat Database)

Download:

# #	cd /usr wget http://downloads.sleepycat.com/db-4.2.52.tar.gz

Unpack:

#	tar xzf db-4.2.52.tar.gz

  
Compile, configure & install

# # # #

cd /usr/db-4.2.52/build_unix ../dist/configure make make install

Note:  Don't use any other version! They don't work with this configuration!

Download and install the Netatalk package:

Download:

# #	cd /usr wget http://switch.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/netatalk/netatalk-2.0.3.tar.gz

Unpack:

#	tar xzf netatalk-2.0.3.tar.gz

Compile, configure & install:

# # # #

cd /usr/netatalk-2.0.3 ./configure --with-bdb=/usr/local/BerkeleyDB.4.2 make make install

Note:  Don't use any other version!  They don't work with this configuration!

Make link to /etc for compatibility:

#	ln -s /usr/local/etc/netatalk /etc/netatalk

Configure for automatic start: in the file /etc/rc.local comment the section about netatalk if uncommented:

# Netatalk stuff   #if [ -f /etc/netatalk/rc.atalk ]; then   #       . /etc/netatalk/rc.atalk   #fi

Add the following start sequence to end of file rc.local:

if [ -f /etc/netatalk/afpd.conf ]; then     echo ' afpd';    /usr/local/sbin/afpd   fi

If you don't wish to reboot to take effect, start the AFP-Daemon with the following command:

#	/usr/local/sbin/afpd

I recommend to reboot to check if the startup sequence are ok.  After the start check if afpd is running:

#	ps ax | grep afpd

must result in a output like this:

27742 ??  I       0:00.05 /usr/local/sbin/afpd

Configuration

Enable AFP (apple filing protocol) password file:

#	afppasswd -c

To add a user you must create a local user account:

#

adduser

... fill in the gaps

Then set the afp password for this user:

#	afppasswd -a [USERNAME]

  
Per default netatalk shares the home-directories of every AFP-enabled user!  If you wish to change this behavior, take a look at the documentation of the daemon process afpd:

#

man afpd

All relevant files and references would you find here.

Author: blowfish
kai at mktfabian dot de