Rhalalâ 
A quoi ça sert que je me décarcasse? 
(French private joke )
If I trust the Netatalk documentation:
Netatalk can use the following third party software to enhance it’s functionality.
-mDNSresponderPOSIX or Avahi for Bonjour (aka Zeroconf)Mac OS X 10.2 and later use Bonjour (aka Zeroconf) for service discovery.
I found the reference 
but still don’t get it, maybe because I’m French Canadian.
I’m glad you did a AVAHI MacOs more friendly
I’ll obviously test it when the part #2 will be ready!!
As @JOduMonT said this part is needed if we make this howto useful, at the moment it’s just a draft.
Please move forward and configure the latter part, if it will work we can move on a standalone configuration removing cups dependencies and so on.
you can follow this how to:
http://www.itnotebook.info/topic314.html
just remember:
Yesterday, I suffer an electricity outage … My UPS didn’t support all the time and all the network was down.
Two littles things occur.
1- The service Avahi was no set to start automatically at boot time.
chkconfig avahi-daemon on
2 - Even start the service, the airport utility wasn’t able to see the Time Capsule… I was forced to restart the time capsule to see it again.
Edit: After several reboot, I can confirm that the second point don’t occur anymore… only need the avahi automatic startup
Subtitle: How to install Netatalk
Version and revision: V1.2 / R 0.8.
For Nethserver 6.6 and above.
Accessible to: Novice / Beginner
Date of presentation: Released on 2015-09-20
Date of the latest revision: Revision: 2015-10-23
Author: Jim
Contact: @Jim
In the precedent topic, we have seen how to install and configure correctly Avahi, the Apple Bonjour service equivalent.
Now that Avahi is installed, we will install Netatalk to provide that Apple Filing protocol (AFP ).
Netatalk is an OpenSource software package, that can be used to turn a *NIX machine into an extremely high-performance and reliable file server for Macintosh computers.
Nowadays, the Time Machine backup need the AFP to work and the Netatalk is in the version 3.1.7
I’ve got a 1 tb drive mount in /opt/timemachine
here my fstab
# vi fstab
#------------------------------------------------------------
# BE CAREFUL WHEN MODIFYING THIS FILE! It is updated automatically
# by the NethServer software. A few entries are updated during
# the template processing of the file and white space is removed,
# but otherwise changes to the file are preserved.
#------------------------------------------------------------
/dev/mapper/vg_microserver-lv_root / ext4 defaults 1 1
UUID=6aa634e2-6cb9-4044-91d2-5f1dc258b718 /boot ext4 defaults 1 2
/dev/mapper/vg_microserver-home /home ext4 defaults 1 2
/dev/mapper/vg_microserver-backup /opt/timemachine ext4 defaults 1 2
/dev/mapper/vg_microserver-lv_swap swap swap defaults 0 0
tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs defaults 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
I want a specific user tmbackup to connect to the server for making the backup.
All this how to is inspired from http://netatalk.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Netatalk_3.1.7_SRPM_for_Fedora_and_CentOS
First, we download the source:
# wget http://www003.upp.so-net.ne.jp/hat/files/netatalk-3.1.7-1.2.fc24.src.rpm
To build Netatalk we need at least “rpm-build”, “gcc” and “make” packages.
# yum install rpm-build gcc make
And install the SRPM
# rpm -ivh netatalk-3.1.7-1.2.fc24.src.rpm
The following messages don’t have a problem.
warning: group hat does not exist - using root
warning: user hat does not exist - using root
Build by using “rpmbuild” command.
# cd ~/rpmbuild/SPECS/
# rpmbuild -bb netatalk.spec
If “error: Failed build dependencies: zzz” is displayed, execute “#yum install zzz”
All this stuff was installed:
Installed: bison-2.4.1-5.el6.x86_64
Installed: cracklib-devel-2.8.16-4.el6.x86_64
Installed: 1:dbus-devel-1.2.24-8.el6_6.x86_64
Installed: glib2-devel-2.28.8-4.el6.x86_64
Installed: dbus-glib-devel-0.86-6.el6.x86_64
Installed: flex-2.5.35-9.el6.x86_64
Installed: xml-common-0.6.3-33.el6.noarch
Installed: sgml-common-0.6.3-33.el6.noarch
Installed: docbook-dtds-1.0-51.el6.noarch
Installed: docbook-style-xsl-1.75.2-6.el6.noarch
Installed: libattr-devel-2.4.44-7.el6.x86_64
Installed: db4-cxx-4.7.25-19.el6_6.x86_64
Installed: db4-devel-4.7.25-19.el6_6.x86_64
Installed: libacl-devel-2.2.49-6.el6.x86_64
Installed: libgpg-error-devel-1.7-4.el6.x86_64
Installed: libcom_err-devel-1.41.12-21.el6.x86_64
Installed: zlib-devel-1.2.3-29.el6.x86_64
Installed: cyrus-sasl-devel-2.1.23-15.el6_6.2.x86_64
Installed: mysql-5.1.73-5.el6_6.x86_64
Installed: libsepol-devel-2.0.41-4.el6.x86_64
Installed: libselinux-devel-2.0.94-5.8.el6.x86_64
Installed: keyutils-libs-devel-1.4-5.el6.x86_64
Installed: krb5-devel-1.10.3-37.el6_6.x86_64
Installed: openssl-devel-1.0.1e-30.el6.11.x86_64
Installed: tcp_wrappers-7.6-57.el6.x86_64
Installed: 1:quota-3.17-21.el6_5.x86_64
Installed: 1:quota-devel-3.17-21.el6_5.x86_64
Installed: mysql-devel-5.1.73-5.el6_6.x86_64
Installed: openldap-devel-2.4.39-8.el6.x86_64
Installed: libgcrypt-devel-1.4.5-11.el6_4.x86_64
Installed: pam-devel-1.1.1-20.el6.x86_64
Installed: systemtap-sdt-devel-2.5-5.el6.x86_64
Installed: libtdb-devel-1.2.10-1.el6.x86_64
Installed: tcp_wrappers-devel-7.6-57.el6.x86_64
After build the rpm and install it
# cd ~/rpmbuild/RPMS/x86_64/
# rpm -ivh netatalk-3.1.7-1.2.el6.x86_64.rpm
If “error: Failed dependencies: xxx is needed by…” is displayed, execute “yum install xxx”
In my case it complain about dbus-python
# yum install dbus-python
Check features and paths, using “afpd -V”.
# afpd -V
afpd 3.1.7 - Apple Filing Protocol (AFP) daemon of Netatalk
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software
Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later
version. Please see the file COPYING for further information and details.
afpd has been compiled with support for these features:
AFP versions: 2.2 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4
CNID backends: dbd last tdb mysql
Zeroconf support: Avahi
TCP wrappers support: Yes
Quota support: Yes
Admin group support: Yes
Valid shell checks: Yes
cracklib support: Yes
EA support: ad | sys
ACL support: Yes
LDAP support: Yes
D-Bus support: Yes
Spotlight support: No
DTrace probes: Yes
afp.conf: /etc/netatalk//afp.conf
extmap.conf: /etc/netatalk//extmap.conf
state directory: /var/lib/netatalk/
afp_signature.conf: /var/lib/netatalk/afp_signature.conf
afp_voluuid.conf: /var/lib/netatalk/afp_voluuid.conf
UAM search path: /usr/lib64/netatalk//
Server messages path: /var/lib/netatalk/msg/
Now let’s go setup up the service, editing the “/etc/netatalk/afp.conf”.
Here’s mine:
# vi afp.conf
;
; Netatalk 3.x configuration file
;
[Global]
; Global server settings
uam list = uams_guest.so , uams_randnum.so , uams_dhx.so , uams_dhx2.so
mimic model = Xserve
log level = default:warn
log file = /var/log/afpd.log
afp interfaces = eth1, eth2
afp listen = 192.168.1.0/24 , 192.168.2.0 /24
; [Homes]
; basedir regex = /home
; [My AFP Volume]
; path = /path/to/volume
[TimeMachine]
path = /opt/timemachine
valid users = tmbackup
time machine = yes
To configure this file, I’ve needed this link:
http://netatalk.sourceforge.net/3.1/htmldocs/configuration.html#authentication
We need to adjust the firewall
config set fw_netatalk service status enabled TCPPorts 548 access private
signal-event firewall-adjust
signal-event runlevel-adjust
we need to add the user tmbackup, and set a password
# useradd tmbackup
# passwd tmbackup
This user need all right on the /opt/timemachine directory
# cd /opt
# chown tmbackup timemachine
And finally enable the service att startup and start the service
# chkconfig netatalk on
# service netatalk start
At this point on the Mac, we can see the server in the finder, and configure the Time Machine Backup
I would like to improve this how to.
@zamboni notice me in other thread, with reason, that install develloper tools on the Nethserver instance is not a so good idea… question of security.
I agree.
I would like to make this in a VM, in another computer. … Build this rpm in another Nethserver developer instance.
But when the netatalk-3.1.7-1.2.el6.x86_64.rpm is done in the VM,
How I put it in the Nethserver instance? by scp with SSH ?
Make a Nethserver-netatalk package for the Nethforge 
Yeah
scp yourfile root@nsip:/root
This week-end, I changed my Mac Mini HDD by a SSD.
It was a really good opportunity to test my backup plan and make different type of restauration.
All worked perfectly as expected.
With the new SSD in the Mac, I was able to boot the Mac pressing “option+R”, and I as seeing my Microserver, Connected to the Microserver and made my Time Machine Restauration.
Finally, the unique problem I encountered was a screwdriver problem… I was hard to find the Torx T6 and T8 
You know what… My Mac is really fast to boot now, the backup plan is okay… I’m really HAPPY
I cannot back to hard drive now, SSD is the way to go.
Awesome! 
thanks for sharing! You have to pay a drink to everyone 
Already done:
the package netatalk-3.1.7-1.2.fc24.src.rpm you gave, can be built without difficulties by mock and the nethserver-6.7 configuration FYI
mock -r nethserver-6.7-x86_64 --rebuild netatalk-3.1.7-1.2.fc24.src.rpm
yum install http://mirror.de-labrusse.fr/nethserver/netatalk/netatalk-3.1.7-1.2.ns6.sdl.x86_64.rpm
Oh yes… A gift for me
hi,
I want to say with the NS 6.9 update.
All this stuff ( Avahi / Netatalk / Time Machine ) still working wonderfull.
Yeah 
Hi Jim,
Have you also had success with NS 7.x?
Thanks!
It’s work fine ( without AD ).
Thanks for the reply!
Hmm, “without AD”. I was actually hoping I could use AD for authentication. What is the issue that you are experiencing?
