Feature #76

AFP support

Added by Harald Dumdey over 3 years ago. Updated over 2 years ago.

Status:New Start:April 25, 2010
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Description

It would be very useful for the growing community of Mac OSX users if nexentastor supports AFP (and Time Machine backups). With the availability of netatalk, it should be easy to implement.

History

Updated by Ryan W over 3 years ago

I agree this would be a nice addition.

Compiling netatalk is pretty easy, actually dealing with the file sharing is not so much. It would be nice if this were part of NMV.

Updated by churnd . over 3 years ago

Agreed here as well. AFP offers significant performance benefits over CIFS when using the appliance as a NAS.

Updated by Anil Gulecha over 3 years ago

Christopher Hearn wrote:

Agreed here as well. AFP offers significant performance benefits over CIFS when using the appliance as a NAS.

I;ve compiled Netatalk, which provides AFP support. It can be downloaded from http://gnusolaris.org:8080/~anil/netatalk_2.0.3-9nexenta1_solaris-i386.deb

You'll need to drop to Unix console, and install with dpkg -i . Use at your own risk.. this is a very lightly tested package. Create a checkpoint before installing.

~Anil

Updated by J B over 3 years ago

Ok,

I downloaded the file using a client computer, put it on a cifs share, logged in as user root, did pdpkg -i but nothing comes up - there is no message whatsoever - how do I check?

Updated by Anil Gulecha over 3 years ago

J B wrote:

Ok,

I downloaded the file using a client computer, put it on a cifs share, logged in as user root, did pdpkg -i but nothing comes up - there is no message whatsoever - how do I check?

You need to drop to bash shell, and run dpkg -i netatalk*deb there.

Once you're logged in as root, run

option expert_mode=1 -s
!bash

That should drop you into bash.

~Anil

Updated by churnd . over 2 years ago

Anil Gulecha wrote:

Christopher Hearn wrote:

Agreed here as well. AFP offers significant performance benefits over CIFS when using the appliance as a NAS.

I;ve compiled Netatalk, which provides AFP support. It can be downloaded from http://gnusolaris.org:8080/~anil/netatalk_2.0.3-9nexenta1_solaris-i386.deb

You'll need to drop to Unix console, and install with dpkg -i . Use at your own risk.. this is a very lightly tested package. Create a checkpoint before installing.

~Anil

Did you compile with NFSv4 ACL option?

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