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Apologies, cups was running on my host which is where I got the admin web app on port 631 from. Turns out, cupsd was indeed not running in the container. When I add `cupsd` to the entrypoint script, all seems to work again. I'll have the (very simple) fix in a next bugfix release. It's odd...

That's odd, because I spun up the latest Docker image now, and can access the CUPS administrative web app on port 631... What do you get if you run `lpstat -p -d`? I cannot properly test actually printing with papd right now though. All my equipment is packed up for an international move...

It's a fair point, I can see how it's misleading. Those instructions double as our continuous integration scripts, and building the AppleTalk code on macOS has value as a smoke test even though we cannot actually run it there. I hold up hope that someone will launch a full-featured userspace...

AppleTalk does not work on macOS currently, I'm afraid. Netatalk relies on the operating system's kernel to supply the transport protocol (DDP). Today, only Linux and NetBSD maintain AppleTalk kernel modules. Apple did away with theirs... many years ago. This wiki page has some more context...

Yes, the Random Number UAM works great with any AppleShare client on System Software 7.1 (and 6.0.x too I think). The only caveat is that you have to use the "afppasswd" tool to create a special AFP password for your user. The Docker image takes care of that automatically, but if you're managing...

Is the device running a Linux based operating system? You could always attempt to compile your own kernel for it.

It is likely that you will have to configure your own NAT table. I started drafting a wiki page with guidance here: https://github.com/Netatalk/netatalk/wiki/MacIP-Gateway Still in early stages… Step one is to make sure you are using a Linux kernel without known AppleTalk bugs. Particularly...

In fact, up until about 2 years ago Synology was still contributing patches for security bugs. Many of the commercial solutions have dropped AFP / Netatalk from their firmwares in recent years, unfortunately. If you are a NAS user, please try to convince the vendor to add it back. :)

Heads-up that netatalk 4.0.0 is available now as a Debian Sid package. If you add the unstable repo to your package manager you can install it. Although I haven’t tested if all dependencies can be resolved on stable Bookworm or not. At the very least it works great on the latest Testing snapshot...

The NEC PC-9801BX is a non-IBM compatible PC from 1993. Tech specs: http://classic.pasocomclub.co.jp/datas/nec_pc_9801bx_u2.html (Japanese) The motherboard of this computer is populated with sideways SMD caps (what's the actual name for this form factor, with two legs on one side of the...

You make a good point. If you have a fleet of old Macs you can definitely run their native AFP file servers, but using such old machines as permanent servers is not advisable, IMHO. In addition to the inconvenience: Old computers are energy inefficient, run insecure software, and you risk...

Thank you! I left a two questions for you in the issue tracker. Please have a look when you got the opportunity.

@JDW I can categorize the Netatalk “customers” in three rough categories: 1. Enterprise. Specifically, IT or SRE folks that operate large scale deployments at offices or schools. This category is probably shrinking, but they still exist and are pretty vocal. 2. Regular home users. Folks using...

@JDW You are absolutely right, I've been neck-deep in this project for three years now so I sometimes forget that not everyone knows everything about it. :) The AI did a pretty good job at summarizing the pros and cons. I might steal some of those blurbs for the homepage or wiki landing page...

@V.Yakob Wonderful, thanks for sharing! Interesting, I didn't know launchd daemon management procedure had changed. Do you have a GitHub account? The best way to track this would be if you could file a bug over at the issue tracker. We can confirm the details and fix it in a future release...

@V.Yakob This page has some hints how to build on macOS with Homebrew: https://netatalk.io/stable/htmldocs/compile#build-macos In short, the xsltproc tool is in the `libxslt` bottle.

4.0.0 is out now! https://github.com/Netatalk/netatalk/releases/tag/netatalk-4-0-0 If you are a brave early adopter, why don't you take it for a spin today? :)

Netatalk 4.0.0 beta is available as a Docker image now. It comes with all the best parts of the 3.x release series, and the 2.x release series that you all know and love! https://hub.docker.com/r/netatalk/netatalk If you have a host computer with an AppleTalk network stack (Linux or NetBSD)...

Netatalk 2.4.8 is available. I have not been announcing the last few releases here on the forums, because they were strictly addressing issues in the build system and packaging. However, this last one is a security release, specifically for the bundled WolfSSL library. If you're building with...

We are now looking for alpha testers of Netatalk 4.0.0. It's a one-way migration path from Netatalk 2.x, so please upgrade only on AFP volumes that have backups, or create fresh volumes for testing. 4.0.0 has a handful of new dependencies, not related to AppleTalk. Notably, Nettle and the...