I know I haven’t covered this users thing yet so lets get right to the point. If you plan on doing more than multimedia, you’ll want to create some public folders for all your users to access. Add all the folder locations you want to share.Īt this point, it’s a good idea to decide if you’ll be using this server for multimedia only or if you have grander plans to use this server as a full-blown file server extraordinaire. Feel free to copy my options as they work well for this deployment. Take a look and decide what options you’ll want to use. Within the default fault file, you’ll see a list of the available options. Please note that the “options:usedots,upriv,tm” are my personal choices. opt/multimedia “Multimedia” cnidscheme:dbd options:usedots,upriv If you created folders under the /opt/ folder, as I explained in the last post, here’s how the syntax for the multimedia folder would look: Let’s break this down into something that makes a little more sense. Here is the syntax you’ll need to use when adding share locations: /full/file/path/location“Name of Share” Options:options options: Wait, what was that about users? Don’t worry, we’ll cover users soon. Now, navigate down to the end of the file.īy default users have access to their home directory. Use the command below to launch nano and start editing: sudo nano /etc/netatalk/fault You’ll need to have the full path of your new folders handy so we can make them available on the network. In our last episode, we created folders to store your media. Wow, wasn’t that simple? Oh wait, there’s configuration, right,? Well, yes, but not much. Here’s How: The first step is to install Netatalk.įrom the command line type in the following command: sudo apt-get install netatalk Netatalk is an open source project that will turn your simple Linux box into an AppleTalk file server. The available machines show up in the Side Bar automatically, this works for SMB or Windows machines, as well. In the Mac world, AppleTalk is the protocol that allows Macs to see each other with zero configuration. You now should have a great place to store all your media but you have no way of getting it all there. It is possible by installing it from sources.Picking up from where I left off on my last post, “Entertainment, Backups and a Whole Lot More,” So I decided to find a way to install latest version 3.1.6. This was really annoying for me, especially because one of the folders which I share is a DropBox folder which is synchronizing all the. This means if you will use version 2 you will find that every time you try to access network share from OS X you will see a lot of. There are a lot of differences between versions 2 and 3, but the main one is that in version 3 you can store Apple metadata and resource forks in extended attributes of the filesystem (see Upgrading from Netatalk 2). The last available version is 3.1.6, but the last version available on Ubuntu’s apt-get is 2.2.2. You can setup AFP server on Linux using Netatalk. There are two benefits of having AFP server in network: a) have access from OS X machines to shared folders b) have a TimeMachine backup server. I use it only to share folders with Windows machines. SMB - Server Message Block - supported by Windows / OS X.AFP - Apple Filing Protocol - as you can guess from the name - good to have it for Apple devices.Because I don’t have LDAP in my home network - I did not consider to use it. It worth investment if you have LDAP in your network and you want to statically mount this share to your machines. NFS - Network File System - this one requires a lot of configurations to setup it right.As far as I know there are three different types of network protocols: The next steps will be about making this home server usable.įirst of all we can configure server as a file share server. In first two blogposts we made it possible to get remote access to our server from outside world. NOTE: I highly recommend to take a look on how to install netatalk with Docker in this article Using docker at home
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