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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...

Macproxy, the best* way to browse the modern web on ancient browsers, has a new release: v24.8 This is a maintenance release, since the Python dependencies were starting to age and accumulate security advisories. But, it also comes with a brand new "official" Docker image. Pull it from Docker...

All of the relevant code from 2.x has now been restored to the main development branch, and the build system has been retooled to build it. The next step will be to adapt the various interfaces that were refactored or simplified during the 3.0 release cycle. Notably, the daemon child process...

The current Netatalk release series (2.x and 3.x) are finally in a good place where we have a modern and flexible build system, with fully functioning user authentication. I can finally pivot to what I wanted to do in the first place: consolidate the best of 2.x and 3.x into one Mac file sharing...

Netatalk 2.4.4 is available. This is yet again a build system bugfix release, working towards stabilizing Debian deb packaging. If Netatalk is working fine for you, take this is an optional upgrade. At this point, I consider the current Netatalk release series (2.4.x, 3.2.x) stable and "done"...

Netatalk 2.x's afpd is not aware of macOS / OSX filesystem EA (Extended Attributes). It stores filesystem metadata in the legacy AppleDouble v2 format by default, which are binary metadata files living in dot-folders. This article is a good introduction...

The location of the config files depends on how the software was installed, so it's not something that can be explicitly documented in the manual. The most sure way to know is to ask netatalk directly. If you have installed netatalk 2.x, run afpd -V. This is an example from my Sonoma MBA: %...

Version 2.4.3 is out now. This is mainly a Meson build system feature and bugfix release, as part of my effort to deliver Debian deb packaging of Netatalk. It fixes fun stuff such as Kerberos API checks, 64 bit architecture detection, library runpaths, pkgconfdir overrides, and support for...