documentation:setup_and_user_guide:afp
AFP (Netatalk)
AFP permits Apple MacOSX users to access the storage resources of XigmaNAS.
This is a short description to get the XigmaNAS server act as a Mac-File Server using Netatalk 2.2.4 File Services.
I assume the XigmaNAS server is up and running…
Step 1 : Create User and Groups (web-interface)
- first make a group e.g. macgroup and apply changes.
- second add some users and give them your previously made group as primary group as well as full shell access.
Step 2 : prepare a folder to get shared (console)
- it is recommended that you dont share the whole volume but a folder within this volume. now we need to go to the NAS and create a directory there and change access permissions. If you have ssh enabled these things can be done from remote as well off course.
- first create a folder into your data-volume :
mkdir /mnt/yourvolume/yoursharedfolder
- second take away root - ownerships as netatalk doesnt like this at all:
chown macuser:macgroup /mnt/yourvolume/yoursharedfolder
- third give them access rights into the folder :
chmod 2775 /mnt/yourvolume/yoursharedfolder
(if you have other users you dont want insider there at all use 2770)
Step 3 : enable afp and configure a volume (web-interface)
- In the share section, only the first 3 entrys are realy relevant (name, comment, path) the rest can be left out. I personally use the last one (upriv) as with 10.5.x clients this seems to be more compatible.
it may happen that folders on the toplevel of the share made by user A have write-protection to the user B…
in this case
chomd -R 2775 /mnt/yourvolume/yoursharedfolder
and simply dont work on the top-level. this seems to be some umask-mac specific problem
(according to the netatalk forums)
documentation/setup_and_user_guide/afp.txt · Last modified: 2018/10/02 15:56 by zoon01
