getting netatalk to talkSo, my general purpose system is a Macbook Pro. To get it to talk to my (linux) file server, I am working on installing netatalk. Sure, I could use Samba, but that isn’t a very Apple like solution :p The problem comes when you realize that, under Ubuntu, netatalk doesn’t support DHCAST128 authentication. This is the only authentication method that doesn’t require clear-text passwords to be stored on the filesystem or sent over the wire. To get around this problem, building from source is the only option. Last time I ended downloading the tarball for netatalk and doing a custom build/install to /usr/local. This time around, I thankfully found a nice page that does essentially the same thing, but with the Ubuntu source package. The nice thing about the latter is that dpkg still knows about netatalk. The page How to install on Ubuntu with DHX is part of the netatalk wiki and quite helpful. |
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