Presenting -- Classic Mac Networking Guide 3.0! — #1

Post #1 by Mk.558

Source Forum	68kMLA
Category	Networking
Post Date	Sun, 7 Jul 2013 - 19:57
Original URL	https://68kmla.org/bb/threads/presenting-classic-mac-networking-guide-3-0.28403/

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After three months of work (averaging about four hours per day), I'm pleased to present Classic Mac Networking, version 3.0.

It's been many hours of testing, writing, rewriting, rewriting again (like the Emergency Network Access Disks section has been rewritten at least twice), getting frustrated with the HTML W3C validator, and so forth.

I do believe that almost anybody in this "business" (???) should be able to learn a couple of things from the Guide, and that's what I wrote it for. A rather bad case of OCD led me to try to cover all the areas (like we know that pseudo-PPP dialup will work with eth0, but what about wlan0? Someone's gotta find out, just to be sure) and this means that this Guide should be useful for many individuals from here on out.

I can't say enough how much protocol7 means to me for the Netatalk section. Here's what I was originally going to say about Netatalk until he graciously provided his notes:

LinuxNote: Netatalk 3.x does not support AppleTalk (afpd) networking; 2.2.4 was the last version to do so. See here. You may have to compile it from source if your repository has been updated to the 3.x version.

Previous testing by installing Netatalk from source repositories was only successful in connecting to 7.5.5 with OT 1.3 enabled. At this present time, attempts to compile and build the Netatalk 2.2.4 source code into a working element were not successful. In prior versions of this Guide, the procedure was demonstrated that produced the results that worked with 7.5.5. However, because the Linux landscape is a highly dynamic, fluid environment, and the update to Netatalk 3.x, requires that we skip this section until further research concerning the methods to compile Netatalk from source. The prior version demonstrated used Ubuntu 11.10, which is not even an LTS system, so the relevance of such a demonstration will quickly go out of date.

To compile without the use of apt-get, which only works for releases still supported and that have Netatalk in their repositories, you will need to download the source code and the binary of the Berkeley DB database software (requires a free account). Make sure your compiler is at least version 2.7.95, type "gcc -v" in Terminal to find out, otherwise the Berkeley DB binary won't compile. Owing to a lack of support in this area, we are precluded from covering this area until further research and testing is conducted, because it's not a good idea to give tips or procedures on expired operating systems like 10.04LTS -- all of which installed Netatalk from the source repositories -- which are out of date and no longer supported. Despite this, we do know it to be possible.

In contrast, the updated information has allowed me to write the Netatalk section with the amount of detail that should allow just about anybody who "can sort of figure it out" level of computing expertise to get it going, even if they've never used Linux before.

I hope you're able to find the time to wander over to the site and learn some things. In the meantime, I can entertain Q/A, additional help, (I'll be on IRC for the next 7 days) but first I have to take a drink...