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You have to run the 2.x series to interoperate with older "classic" Macs. Nearly everything these days packages the 3.x series and thus only works with more rec

You have to run the 2.x series to interoperate with older "classic" Macs. Nearly everything these days packages the 3.x series and thus only works with more recent OS X clients.

Lammy 5y ago
That is true for AFP over AppleTalk, yes. Netatalk3 only supports AFP over TCP, but that's fine as far back as System 7 using AppleShare Workstation with MacTCP. System 7.6 and later can use AppleShare Client 3.8.8 with OpenTransport: https://web.archive.org/web/20110418060150/https://support.apple.com/kb/DL1272 https://web.archive.org/web/20110418060150/https://support.a...
- im_down_w_otp 5y ago
  It's not the protocols that are entirely the problem. It's the authentication mechanisms that also create limitations. I had zero luck getting my 6.0.8 thru 8.6 installs to connect to Netatalk hosts on either my FreeNAS box or my Ubuntu 20.10 workstation until I manually built and installed the old 2.x tree.
  - Lammy 5y ago
    It's been a few years so I don't remember if I ran into any difficulties or what options I may have changed from default, but I've definitely used it with my Quadra v(._. )v https://i.imgur.com/yjGGN9k.jpg https://i.imgur.com/yjGGN9k.jpg
    - im_down_w_otp 5y ago
      It's entirely possible I just couldn't get the right mix and config together with 3.x It just went from fiddly and non-working to braindead easy once I downgraded to 2.x :shrug:
  - kalleboo 5y ago
    FWIW I've had no trouble connecting to the built-in install of netatalk 3.1.8 on my Synology NAS from MacOS 8.1. I can't remember if I had to tweak the config or not.
rjsw 5y ago
Netatalk 2.2 will work on a NetBSD server.