I have also been trying to get Debian PPC, working on an old PowerMac G4, to share files with OS X Snow Leopard with limited success. Here is a link that describes rebuilding Netatalk to include password encryption that will play nice with Bonjour.
http://routerjockey.com/2009/08/28/setting-up-apple-filing-protocol-and-bonjour-under-debian/ Others have suggested going the SAMBA way although I have found that it doesn't work with Snow Leopard, probably for the same reason. Tom On Dec 2, 2010, at 6:04 AM, Gregory Seidman wrote: > I'm running Debian stable (mostly) on my home server on an x86 box, and a > nearly identical setup on my parents' home server (which I administer) on a > Mac G4 tower. I recently built a netatalk package with OpenSSL (there are > licensing issues, which is why I had to build it myself) on both systems, > with identical dependencies. I also installed and configured identically > the avahi daemon to advertise the shares. The goal is to allow my wife's > Mac laptop to use our home server's RAID as a Time Machine backup, which > seems to work beautifully, and to allow my father's Mac laptop to use their > home server's RAID as a Time Machine backup, which doesn't work at all. > > I'm betting on some kind of unpleasant endianness issue with netatalk. > There are two symptoms of the problem at my parents' house: the share isn't > an option in the Time Machine control panel, and manually logging into the > share fails on a bad password (even though I am using afppasswd to set the > password explicitly and I am certain I am typing it correctly). > > Has anyone else had any luck with netatalk (supporting OpenSSL) on PPC? > > --Greg > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20101202130448.gq2...@anthropohedron.net > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/6b7c731f-f613-49a4-8f1b-b87fbb59e...@sharedcup.com
