If your network gets bigger and packets collision occur (these Zeroconf devices constantly broadcast 'I am here, anybody out there?'), you may abandon the comfort of Zeroconf and go DHCP-fixed-IP for the RPi in question. Hint: do a and check for correct operations of avahi. In the end Zeroconf is running as a service in application layer, not in infrastructure, and only on a fully functional network base.įirst quick check is always to see whether is accessible from the Mac/Computers browser. Many times it is more a matter of the underlying network configuration and/or the avahi demon not fully started (which won't until the underlying network configuration is exactly correct, see the beginning of the sentence. Be aware some Mac systems change that name according to your language setting of the system!ītw, the Bonjour part is handled by avahi on the Pi, not in Samba. At the Pi you'll find this in /etc/samba/smb.conf and on Mac at the system settings - network - options - WINS tab. Make sure the Pi and the Mac are in the same workgroup for fully correct SMB. It worked really good until yesterday when I installed Samba to be able to share certain folders on my server to my mac. The DSM update takes 10 to 20 minutes, while the package update may take more than an hour. I installed netatalk on my Ubuntu Server a few weeks ago and configured it so that I could use Timemachine from my mac to backup on a server instead of a external hard drive. Reserve extra time to complete DSM 7.0.1 update. Before updating, your Synology NAS should be running DSM 6.2 or above versions. See for initial configuration advice.But maybe it's a configuration issue with Samba?įirst thing to check (and the most prominent error location) is the Workgroup settings, as the Pi announces itself as a Microsoft Windows Network. After installing DSM 7.0.1, you will not be able to downgrade to a previous DSM version. To install: $ sudo apt-add-repository ppa:gercod/netatalk Netatalk icon First you should deactivate services provided by Netatalk which are not needed if you just want to use your Ubuntu box for file sharing. Fast forward 2 days of digging into the depths of the Ubuntu/Debian build system, how PPAs work and a few hundred builds failed for whatever reasons and here is the result. Now you have successfully build and installed your custom Netatalk package which now has support for encrypted logins. I decided to try and create my own PPA for this Netatalk/Ubuntu combination and to limit the cruft I had to install on my server tried to create a Docker-based environment for building the package based on an existing PPA for an older version existing PPA for an older version. Besides, on a system that is based on a package manager, installing from source should be avoided if at all possible. apt-get install on debian will still install an old 2.x.x, thus building one yourself is more or less required. Installing from source requires installing a boatload of build dependencies that I don’t want on my “production” server. I find Netatalk 3.1.10 really great much easier to build and successfully configure than earlier versions (I'm thinking v2.xx and earlier). I found some instructions to install from source, but I didn’t want to do that. To my great surprise there were some PPAs for older Ubuntu versions but none for 15.10 that I could find. Because of that I was looking to install the latest version of Netatalk on my Ubuntu 15.10 server (to, hopefully, see the dreaded “Time Machine must create a new backup for you”-message a little less often). Ubuntu only provides Netatalk version 2.x in their repos and that version has some issues with Time Machine reliability. ![]() With Netatalk you can back them up to your Linux file server. This is great if you have a few Macs in your house and don’t want to buy a big enough Time Capsule to back them all up. Netatalk is a daemon that runs an Apple File Protocol (AFP) service on a Linux or other *nix machine that will allow Macs to use it as a file server and Time Machine backup target. (This post serves mostly as personal documentation and as a place to host relevant links)
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