Quick Tip: Netatalk 3.0.1 on Joyent SmartOS

Thu, 01 Nov 2012 20:52:54 -0400

I had to fiddle around with this a bit and thought it might be useful to others. I’m using a Joyent SmartOS zone as a file server for my Macs at home, and Netatalk is really the best way to share files to a Mac from a UNIX system.

Real quick, here’s how it was done:

download netatalk source, untar the source, cd into the source directory
./configure --with-bdb=/opt/local --with-init-style=solaris --without-pam --prefix=/opt/local
vim distrib/initscripts/Makefile
find the line that begins with “servicedir” and change it to:
servicedir = /var/svc/manifest/network/
save & exit the makefile
make && sudo make install
vim /opt/local/etc/afp.conf and add your shares
sudo svcadm enable netatalk
verify that it’s running with: svcs netatalk

Special thanks to rmustacc in Freenode/#illumos for helping me get the SMF manifest installing to the correct path. I hope some of you find this helpful.

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Quick Tip: Netatalk 3.0.1 on Joyent SmartOS