Maybe someone more expert than me can help with this question:
For compatibility reasons I want to enable Samba on my netatalk (A2Server) NAS.
I know there’s the vfs_fruit module for Samba to interoperate with netatalk 3. But googling brings up reports from several people who experience incompatibilities. On top of that, I don’t run netatalk v3 but v2 as I also need DDP.
To work around most of that I could extend the Debian system on my NAS with the ability to handle HFS+ volumes, format the HDD with the shared volumes accordingly and copy all data back unto it from the backup.
I guess that would fix all incompatibilities between netatalk 2 and Samba with vfs_fruit but one: What about file name encoding?
Or is there anything else I haven’t thought of?
Adding Samba to my netatalk NAS
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Re: Adding Samba to my netatalk NAS
IIRC netatalk2 isn't aware of samba file locking which can cause trouble. And, there were complications when using adouble metadata too, I believe.
It is netatalk3 that is explicitly samba compatible, with its special ea=samba option. See https://netatalk.sourceforge.io/3.1/htm ... onf.5.html
It is netatalk3 that is explicitly samba compatible, with its special ea=samba option. See https://netatalk.sourceforge.io/3.1/htm ... onf.5.html
Re: Adding Samba to my netatalk NAS
I have yet to look further regarding a solution, didn’t spend any additional time in this since my initial post. But then I know combining with Samba isn’t an option.
Thanks for your response, it will save me quite some hassle and trouble!
Thanks for your response, it will save me quite some hassle and trouble!