I'm hoping that someone might be able to provide some suggestions on a minor irritating nuisance. We have Mac's and PC's on our network, and I have set up a server with Samba and Netatalk on it for sharing files back and forth. After reading through the documentation, I have determined that Netatalk works just as we would like for it too with it's default configuration.
The documentation, and the notes inside of the config files indicate that 'guest' mode is enabled by default, however, when I log in from a Mac, I am asked for a username without even the option of logging on as 'guest'. To get around this, we have set up a user that we use on both Samba and the Mac to share files with everybody. This has worked great for a loooong time, but I was once again reminded that it would be so much easier if we could just log on as guests. (I had to restart the atalk daemon today, and was just poking around in the config files.).
Does anyone have any ideas?
Craig D.
According to the documentation within the afpd.conf file, you want a line like the following :
"AppleTalk Server" -uamlist uams_guest.so
The text between the quotes is the name you are calling the server, "-uamlist uams_guest.so" enables guest logins. If you want the server to be accessible on both TCP and DDP, add -transall to the line.
You may or may not also need the following :
-defaultvol /etc/atalk/AppleVolumes.default -systemvol /etc/atalk/AppleVolumes.system
On my system I had to add the above otherwise I could not access the server. The -defaultvol option specifies which file contains the volume descriptions. This is a file containing the list of paths to serve. The -systemvol option contains file mappings.
HTH
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