macOS
brew install netatalklocal Homebrew formula metadata
sudo port install netatalkMacPorts ports tree · net/netatalk/Portfile · Quelle: api.github.com
brew
Prüfe Installationswege, Executables, Metadaten und Sicherheitshinweise für netatalk in AI-Agent-Workflows.
Installation
brew install netatalklocal Homebrew formula metadata
sudo port install netatalkMacPorts ports tree · net/netatalk/Portfile · Quelle: api.github.com
sudo apk add netatalkAlpine Linux edge package indexes · netatalk · Quelle: dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org
sudo apt install netatalkDebian stable package indexes · netatalk · Quelle: deb.debian.org
sudo dnf install netatalkFedora Rawhide package metadata · netatalk · Quelle: dl.fedoraproject.org
nix profile install nixpkgs#netatalknixpkgs package indexes · pkgs/by-name/ne/netatalk/package.nix · Quelle: api.github.com
Überblick
File server for Macs, compliant with Apple Filing Protocol (AFP)
Verlauf
Netatalk is the open source AFP and AppleTalk file-server suite for Unix-like systems. It lets Unix, Linux, BSD, and macOS hosts serve files to Classic Mac OS, early Mac OS X, modern macOS AFP clients, and some third-party AFP clients.
Netatalk's own roadmap summarizes major feature history from 1990 through 2013, and later releases continued the AFP server line. The project has moved from classic AppleTalk-oriented service into AFP-over-TCP, macOS interoperability, CNID backends, Zeroconf, Spotlight-style search, and then renewed retro-networking support.
The 3.x series emphasized modern AFP service, including a unified `afp.conf`, filesystem extended attributes, AFP 3.4 compliance, Samba interoperability, and production-server features. The 4.x line brought back AppleTalk support behind explicit build and configuration flags, serving the revived vintage Mac and Apple II networking audience.
Netatalk became important wherever Unix systems needed to look like AppleShare servers. Its official site emphasizes that conforming macOS, Mac OS X, and Classic Mac OS systems can connect out of the box; the 2.2 release notes also describe AppleTalk routing, print serving, PAP printer access, and related tools.
Its modern adoption is split: production AFP servers are narrower because SMB became the dominant macOS file-sharing protocol, but vintage-computing users, retro NAS projects, and mixed Mac labs still need AFP, AppleDouble metadata handling, CNID databases, MacIP, and AppleTalk-era utilities.
Homebrew showed a small but real audience, with 618 stable installs and 5 HEAD installs in the 365-day formula window. That tracks with a specialist server package rather than a general desktop tool.
Package users run `afpd` through the `netatalk` service controller, configure shares in `afp.conf`, manage AFP passwords with `afppasswd`, and use bundled diagnostic/test tools such as `afp_lantest`, `afp_speedtest`, and `asip-status`.
Retro-networking users care about whether AppleTalk is compiled and enabled, plus companion daemons and tools such as `atalkd`, `papd`, `nbplkup`, `getzones`, `macipgw`, `a2boot`, and `timelord`. Modern server users care more about authentication, metadata storage, CNID reliability, Zeroconf advertisement, and macOS Finder behavior.
Netatalk is packaging as protocol preservation. It keeps AFP and AppleTalk workflows usable after Apple's own platform incentives moved elsewhere, and it packages many small protocol-era utilities that would be painful to rebuild piecemeal.
Sicherheitslage
formula declares a Homebrew service.
orange Risiko · mittel Konfidenz · infrastructure
Prüfe vor unbeaufsichtigter Agent-Nutzung, ob das Tool Klartext-Credentials liest, Remote-Zustand schreibt, Artefakte veröffentlicht oder Plugins ausführt.
local files
These source-backed paths show where this package keeps local settings or durable credentials. Automic Vault can use them as review targets for secret scanning, migration, and command approval.
Config paths the tool may read or write during local use.
afp.conf in the compiled Netatalk configuration directoryextmap.conf in the compiled Netatalk configuration directoryCredential-bearing paths to review before unattended agent runs.
afppasswdafppasswd.srpafppasswd.key in the compiled Netatalk configuration directoryExecutables
| Befehl | Art | Sichtbarkeit | Hinweis |
|---|---|---|---|
a2boot | cli | globales Executable | |
addump | cli | globales Executable | |
aecho | cli | globales Executable | |
afp_lantest | cli | globales Executable | |
afp_logintest | cli | globales Executable | |
afp_spectest | cli | globales Executable | |
afp_speedtest | cli | globales Executable | |
afparg | cli | globales Executable | |
afpd | cli | globales Executable | |
afpldaptest | cli | globales Executable | |
afppasswd | cli | globales Executable | |
afpstats | cli | globales Executable | |
asip-status | cli | globales Executable | |
atalkd | cli | globales Executable | |
cnid_dbd | cli | globales Executable | |
cnid_metad | cli | globales Executable | |
dbd | cli | globales Executable | |
fce_listen | cli | globales Executable | |
getzones | cli | globales Executable | |
macipgw | cli | globales Executable | |
macusers | cli | globales Executable | |
nad | cli | globales Executable | |
nbplkup | cli | globales Executable | |
nbprgstr | cli | globales Executable | |
nbpunrgstr | cli | globales Executable | |
netatalk | cli | globales Executable | |
pap | cli | globales Executable | |
papd | cli | globales Executable | |
papstatus | cli | globales Executable | |
rtmpqry | cli | globales Executable | |
timelord | cli | globales Executable |
Aktualität
Diese Signale trennen das Alter der Seitengenerierung, Aktivität des Paketmanagers und Upstream-Release-Vergleich. Versionsrückstand wird nur gemeldet, wenn eine Evidenz-URL und vergleichbare Versionen vorhanden sind.
https://github.com/Netatalk/netatalk
Installationsmetadaten
| Paketschlüssel | brew:netatalk |
|---|---|
| Version | 4.5.1 |
| Paketmanager | Homebrew |
| Paketmanager-Seite | https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/netatalk |
| Homepage | https://netatalk.io |
| Repository | https://github.com/Netatalk/netatalk |
| Upstream-Dokumentation | https://github.com/Netatalk/netatalk#readme |
| Lizenz | GPL-2.0-or-later AND BSD-2-Clause AND BSD-3-Clause AND HPND AND HPND-Pbmplus AND Kazlib AND LGPL-2.0-or-later AND LGPL-2.1-or-later |
| Quellarchiv | https://github.com/Netatalk/netatalk/releases/download/netatalk-4-5-1/netatalk-4.5.1.tar.xz |
| Zuletzt aktualisiert | 2026-07-17T10:50:18Z |
| Pulse | updated |
| Abhängigkeiten | berkeley-db@5, bstring, cracklib, iniparser, libevent, libgcrypt, mariadb-connector-c, openldap, talloc |
| Build-Abhängigkeiten | cmark-gfm, meson, ninja, pkgconf |
| Von macOS bereitgestellte Bibliotheken | krb5, libxcrypt, perl, sqlite |
| Bottle | verfügbar (auf arm64_linux, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, sonoma, x86_64_linux) |
| Homebrew post-install | nicht definiert |
| Dienst | declared |
| Einschränkungen | Authenticating as a system user requires manually installing the PAM configuration file to a predetermined location by running: sudo install -d -o $USER -g admin /usr/local/etc mkdir -p /usr/local/etc/pam.d cp $(brew --prefix)/etc/pam.d/netatalk /usr/local/etc/pam.d See `man pam.conf` for more information. |
Registry-Fakten
| Source Database | Homebrew formula API |
|---|---|
| Tap | homebrew/core |
| Full Name | netatalk |
| Version Scheme | 0 |
| Revision | 0 |
| Head Version | HEAD |
| Bottle Stable Root URL | https://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core |
| Deprecated | no |
| Disabled | no |
| Keg Only | no |
| URL Keys |
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Source-Datenbank-Treffer
Treffer stammen aus externen Paketmanager-Indizes und bleiben von lokalen Automic-Vault-Paketlinks getrennt.
a2boot 4.2.3~ds-1+deb13u1
AppleTalk Network Suite (Apple II NetBoot)
https://github.com/Netatalk/netatalk
sudo apt install a2bootatalkd 4.2.3~ds-1+deb13u1
AppleTalk Network Suite
https://github.com/Netatalk/netatalk
sudo apt install atalkdlibatalk 4.2.3~ds-1+deb13u1
Apple Filing Protocol service (shared library)
https://github.com/Netatalk/netatalk
sudo apt install libatalklibatalk-dev 4.2.3~ds-1+deb13u1
Apple Filing Protocol service (development files)
https://github.com/Netatalk/netatalk
sudo apt install libatalk-devmacipgw 4.2.3~ds-1+deb13u1
AppleTalk Network Suite (MacIP Gateway)
https://github.com/Netatalk/netatalk
sudo apt install macipgwnetatalk 4.2.3~ds-1+deb13u1
Apple Filing Protocol service
https://github.com/Netatalk/netatalk
sudo apt install netatalknetatalk-doc 4.2.3~ds-1+deb13u1
Apple Filing Protocol service (documentation)
https://github.com/Netatalk/netatalk
sudo apt install netatalk-docnetatalk-tests 4.2.3~ds-1+deb13u1
Apple Filing Protocol service (test tools)
https://github.com/Netatalk/netatalk
sudo apt install netatalk-testsnetatalk-tools 4.2.3~ds-1+deb13u1
Apple Filing Protocol service (administrative tools)
https://github.com/Netatalk/netatalk
sudo apt install netatalk-toolspapd 4.2.3~ds-1+deb13u1
AppleTalk Network Suite (PAP Print Server)
https://github.com/Netatalk/netatalk
sudo apt install papdtimelord 4.2.3~ds-1+deb13u1
AppleTalk Network Suite (Timelord Time Server)
https://github.com/Netatalk/netatalk
sudo apt install timelordnetatalk
nix profile install nixpkgs#netatalknetatalk 3.1.18~ds-1build4
Apple Filing Protocol service
https://github.com/Netatalk/netatalk
sudo apt install netatalknetatalk 4.5.0-r0
Open Source AFP fileserver
sudo apk add netatalknetatalk-dev 4.5.0-r0
Open Source AFP fileserver (development files)
sudo apk add netatalk-devnetatalk-doc 4.5.0-r0
Open Source AFP fileserver (documentation)
sudo apk add netatalk-docQuellspur
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