I guess you’ll have to try by yourself to see if you can now access files previously created by “rob.” If not, then you should use chown. As for being sure you’re using AFP and not SMB, the easiest way is to see if you get the public_html (or something named similarly…) when clicking on the icon. If yes, you’re using SMB, unfortunately…

Thanks for the awesome guide! I got mine set up this evening. One question…

When I first got my Dlink I created a user “rob” that I’ve been connecting as. Now that I have AFP setup, and added a password for the “nobody” user, do I still want to connect as me, or should I actually use “nobody” and the password that I set? Or forget all of that and just connect as Guest? What happens to the files that were created as “rob”? Should I chown them to nobody?

Okay, maybe two questions: is there a way to prove that I’m using AFP and not SMB any longer? When I start up my Mac I see my NAS listed (with a nice new icon) but how do I know it’s not just falling back to using SMB? I can manually connect to afp://10.0.0.10 but how can I trust that when I automatically connect and just browse via the Finder that I’m getting the AFP goodness?

Thanks again!
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I did not make the last step “Making Mac OS X Leopard play nice with Netatalk” on my macbook (running snow leopard) and everything is running fine.

I must say that i did not undestand this step “Give a password to that user and store the password (in clear text) in the user’s home directory as shown here” (i mean the all process described on that external page)… and thus i only executed the command lines in the “grey window” under it (but maybe these command lines make what’s described between the quotes)

Am i wrong ? (dont shoot the newbie )

Knew nothing about Linux before I got the DNS-343. It’s fun when you get things to work finally.

You should create a startup script — see part (3).

Great guide! Thanks!
I’m using the DNS-343 & OS X.6.4. Also got Time Machine to work.

I’ve used db48-4.8.30-1.tgz & netatalk-2.1.1-1.tgz instead and it also works. Only issue is that I’ve to manually start /ffp/sbin/cnid_metad daemon every time the NAS is rebooted. Anyway to start automatically? Thanks.