Installing Netatalk on OmniOS

Install Netatalk

The unofficial OpenCSW package repository for Solaris and Solaris-likes distributes a netatalk binary package that can be installed through their package manager.

For building and installing from source yourself, for instance to get a newer version, follow the guides linked here.

• Installation Quick Start
• Compile Netatalk from Source

Dependencies

Note that Netatalk 3.x and 4.x require libevent v2 which is not distributed with vanilla OmniOS. Therefore applying the SmartOS bootstrap layer is recommended to get modern libraries, including Meson, Tracker, Libgcrypt etc. This process is described in the Compile chapter linked above.

An alternative route is to build libevent v2 from scratch, which should theoretically work but has not been demonstrated (yet). The libevent build system uses CMake.

Beyond this, the following should get you started with Netatalk 4.x:

Prepare environment

pkg install bdb bison build-essential flex ninja pkg-config
/usr/lib/python3.12/bin/pip install meson

Configure and compile

meson setup build \
              -Dbuildtype=release \
              -Dwith-bdb-path=/opt/ooce \
              -Dwith-dbus-sysconf-path=/usr/share/dbus-1/system.d
meson compile -C build
meson install -C build

Starting and stopping

Start Netatalk.

svcadm enable svc:/network/netatalk:default

Stop Netatalk.

svcadm disable svc:/network/netatalk:default

PAM support

OmniOS uses an old-school PAM configuration, so manual modification of /etc/pam.conf is required

See one example in this blog post titled OmniOS: Netatalk with PAM Authentication