Two comments about the afpd.conf file list above:

# default:
- -udp -noddp -uamlist uams_randnum.so,uams_dhx.so,uams_dhx2.so -nosavepassword

1) -udp is not one of the listed options in the man page for afpd.conf. As far as I can tell, AFP doesn’t use udp anyway, so I removed this option from my config (or you can add -tcp, since that’s the default)

2) from reading up on the various authentication schemes, it sounds like uams_randnum.so is not secure and only needed if you have very old clients. I removed it from my config and have had no issues (though I only have 10.5+ clients)

After that, it’s quite straightforward:
./configure –enable-debian –enable-zeroconf
make && sudo make install

Then make sure it starts when the system boots:
update-rc.d netatalk defaults

The last comment only shows up some errors so if any of you has any suggestions to get those away, please share! For now it seems to work flawlessly ^_^

Thanks for the great tutorial!

I have changed the NiceMin and NiceMax, so that their difference is equal to the range and NiceMin is a multiple of the power of 10 immediately below or equal to the value minimum. For explain that better, if min and max are 12 and 26, the amendment provides 10 and 30.

This is the modified code:

double exponent; /** exponent of range */
…
if (minPoint > 0) {
exponent = Math.floor(Math.log10(minPoint));
} else {
exponent = Math.ceil(Math.log10(Math.abs(minPoint)));
}
this.niceMin = Math.floor(minPoint/Math.pow(10, exponent))*Math.pow(10, exponent);
this.niceMax = this.niceMin + this.range;

best regards

John Rossati

Any ideas on how to over come this?

Many thanks