Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > Even if the historical underlying network protocol, Appletalk, have been > abandoned by Apple for quite some time, netatalk also works on top of > tcp, and is is in active use among Macintosh users, I believe: It is an > essential part of the backup routine "time machine".
Doing so seems to involve: * Rebuilding netatalk with ssl support (impossible to do in debian due to license incompatability; #565969) * Manually configuring avahi to advertise the netatalk server (bug #566114 asks that this be done by default) (And avahi was never installed as part of the file-server task.) * Creating a magic file (.com.apple.timemachine.supported) to make time machine deign to use the volume. * Hope and pray, since all the documentation about people doing this seems to date from 2007-2008, and who knows what has broken since then. This does not seem to be at a level of integration suitable for tasksel. Probably one or two steps could be skipped to use netatalk as a generic file server for OS X, without time machine. But since OS X can use both NFS and SMB as a client, apparently trivially, supporting a third protocol in the file-server task seems unnecessary. (BTW, time machine can also be used with NFS and SMB.) -- see shy jo
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