Installing Netatalk on NetBSD

Install the latest Netatalk

NetBSD is one out of a handful of distributions that still actively maintain an AppleTalk kernel module.

Additionally, it has both a Netatalk 3.x as well as a Netatalk 2.x package in the pkgsrc repository that work out of the box.

For building and installing from source yourself, find links to the official documentation below.

• Compile Netatalk from Source: NetBSD in the Manual
• INSTALL.md in the source tree

Required packages

Before starting, make sure you have a working pkgsrc environment.

Install the packages that netatalk22 depends on:

pkg_add \
  git \
  mozilla-rootcerts-openssl \
  gcc13 \
  autoconf \
  libtool \
  pkg-config \
  db5 \
  libgcrypt \
  libressl \
  gmake \
  cups \
  cracklib

Install netatalk22 itself:

pkg_add netatalk22

Configuration

In older versions of Netatalk, you had to enable the NetBSD init script with the --enable-netbsd or equivalent compile time flag.

Once installed, you can control the netatalk service as any other NetBSD service.

If needed, copy the installed netatalk initscripts to the /etc/rc.d directory.

AppleTalk

NetBSD comes with an AppleTalk kernel module (/sys/netatalk) which Netatalk can use for DDP transport protocol out of the box.

In order to register with the AppleTalk protocols, the /etc/services file must contain proper protocol definitions. Make sure the following entries are present on your installation:

rtmp		1/ddp		# Routing Table Maintenance Protocol
nbp		2/ddp		# Name Binding Protocol
echo		4/ddp		# AppleTalk Echo Protocol
zip		6/ddp		# Zone Information Protocol

afpovertcp	548/tcp		# AFP over TCP
afpovertcp	548/udp

From: https://github.com/Netatalk/netatalk/blob/main/config/services.atalk