AFP For Linux File server

• Install the netatalk package

yum install netatalk

• Configure the service for autostart

chkconfig atalk on

• Modify the configuration file vi /etc/atalk/AppleVolumes.default adding the shared directories. At the end of the file you can find a line with only the ~ char, this means share the homedir. The format of the share is like this:

/data/share1 "share1"
/data/share2 "test"

• /data/share1 (or /data/share2) is the path to the share on the server and share1 (or test) is the name shown on the Apple computer.

• Modify the file /etc/pam.d/netatalk this way:

  #%PAM-1.0
  #auth       required    pam_unix.so
  #account    required    pam_unix.so 
  #password   required    pam_cracklib.so
  #password   required    pam_unix.so use_authtok
  #session    required    pam_unix.so 
  auth       include      system-auth
  account    required     pam_nologin.so
  account    include      system-auth
  password   include      system-auth
  session    include      system-auth
  session    required     pam_loginuid.so
  

• As you can see the default lines are commented out and others are placed instead. This configuration permit the use of the central authentication of the computer (/etc/passwd, Nis, Ldap, ecc).

• start the service

service atalk start

• Wait until all the atalk service are started and the try to connect from a Apple computer.
• To connect from the client activate the finder menu and press the Apple+K key combination, on the dialog windows insert the name of the file server.