Leopard, AFP and the Intrepid Ibex

Seeing as Intrepid will be out in a number of days, I wanted to update my previous post on installing netatalk on Ubuntu with SSL support. The steps remain pretty much the same for Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex). As I mentioned, It's easy enough to allow Leopard to use plaintext passwords with the following command:

$ defaults write com.apple.AppleShareClient afp_cleartext_allow -bool true

You can use the following instructions to download and build netatalk on Hardy (you must have the Universe repository enabled in /etc/apt/sources.list):

$ mkdir -p ~/src/netatalk
$ cd ~/src/netatalk
$ sudo apt-get install devscripts cracklib2-dev dpkg-dev libssl-dev build-essential
$ sudo apt-get build-dep netatalk
$ apt-get source netatalk
$ cd netatalk-2.0.3
$ DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=ssl dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc
$ sudo debi

Netatalk is now properly installed, but there are two tweaks i suggest. First, tell dpkg not to upgrade netatalk:

$ echo "netatalk hold" | sudo dpkg --set-selections

Second, I always edit /etc/default/netatalk to set the following:

ATALKD_RUN=no
PAPD_RUN=no

Disabling atalkd and papd mean Netatalk will start much faster. I don't know anyone that uses atalkd or papd anymore, so it's worth looking into.

You should now be able to connect from Leopard to your Intrepid home directory!

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