debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey

3 times.

First I thought that the keys didn’t match – that was not it (I generated a new pair and installed them – same result).

Then I remembered that sshd is really picky with the permissions on the directories. If the private key in .ssh is accessible by others than the user, it will by default fail.

That was it. Now I just need to find out why the permissions has changed…

So in my case I created a file /etc/fstab and inserted a file for the home directory on my server (local ip: 192.168.1.40):

192.168.1.40:/jesper /Users/jesper/tranquil/jesper url automounted,url==afp://jesper:PASSWORD@192.168.1.40/jesper 0 0

Then I created the directory locally on my laptop: /Users/jesper/tranquil/jesper

And ran:

sudo automount -vc

And wupti I could cd into /Users/jesper/tranquil/jesper and the Mac mounted it and it worked just like any other directory on the laptop

I have made a script that I can run in a screen. It will update the ports tree and compile the new software:

portsnap fetch extract update
pkgdb -F
portsdb -Fu
portupgrade -ac

Something wrong with the volume’s CNID DB, using
temporary CNID DB instead. Check server messages
for details. Switching to read-only mode.

I solved this by adding a little to the rc.conf:

cnid_metad_enable=”yes”

http://www.simonwheatley.co.uk/2008/04/06/avahi-finder-icons/

So create (if not already present) a file:

/usr/local/etc/avahi/services/afp.service

And put e.g. this in it:

<?xml version=”1.0″ standalone=’no’?><!–*-nxml-*–>
<!DOCTYPE service-group SYSTEM “avahi-service.dtd”>
<service-group>
  <name replace-wildcards=”yes”>%h</name>
  <service>
    <type>_afpovertcp._tcp</type>
    <port>548</port>
  </service>
  <service>
    <type>_device-info._tcp</type>
    <port>0</port>
    <txt-record>model=Xserve</txt-record>
  </service>
</service-group>

This will display the AFP server as an Xserve

The different model found in the plist  that defines the graphics are:

(/System/Library/CoreServices/CoreTypes.bundle/Contents/Info.plist)

Name	ID	Models
PC	public.generic-pc	Windows Windows2000 WindowsXP Windows2003 WindowsVista Windows2008 Windows7
Mac	com.apple.mac	Macintosh
Laptop	com.apple.mac.laptop	Laptop
Tower	com.apple.mac.tower	Tower
PowerBook	com.apple.powerbook	PowerBook
PowerBook G4	com.apple.powerbook-g4-titanium	PowerBook3,2 PowerBook3,3 PowerBook3,4 PowerBook3,5
PowerBook G4	com.apple.powerbook-g4-12	PowerBook6,1 PowerBook6,2 PowerBook6,4 PowerBook6,8
PowerBook G4	com.apple.powerbook-g4-15	PowerBook5,2 PowerBook5,4 PowerBook5,6 PowerBook5,8
PowerBook G4	com.apple.powerbook-g4-17	PowerBook5,1 PowerBook5,3 PowerBook5,5 PowerBook5,7 PowerBook5,9
iBook G4	com.apple.ibook-g4	PowerBook6,3 PowerBook6,5 PowerBook6,7
Power Mac	com.apple.powermac	PowerMac
Power Mac G4	com.apple.powermac-g4-quicksilver	PowerMac3,5
Power Mac G4	com.apple.powermac-g4-mirrored-drive-doors	PowerMac3,6
Power Mac G5	com.apple.powermac-g5	PowerMac7,2 PowerMac7,3 PowerMac9,1 PowerMac11,2 PowerMac11,2,Quad
Xserve	com.apple.xserve	RackMac Xserve
(null)	com.apple.macmini-unibody	Macmini4,1
(null)	com.apple.macmini-unibody-no-optical	Macmini Macmini5,1 Macmini5,2 Macmini5,3
eMac	com.apple.emac	PowerMac4,4 PowerMac6,4
iMac	com.apple.imac	iMac
(null)	com.apple.imac-g4-15	PowerMac4,2
(null)	com.apple.imac-g4-17	PowerMac4,5 PowerMac6,1
(null)	com.apple.imac-g4-20	PowerMac6,3
iMac G5	com.apple.imac-g5	PowerMac8,1 PowerMac8,2
(null)	com.apple.imac-g5-isight	PowerMac12,1
(null)	com.apple.imac-core-duo	iMac4,1 iMac4,2
(null)	com.apple.imac-core-2-duo	iMac5,1 iMac5,2
(null)	com.apple.imac-iSight-24	iMac6,1
(null)	com.apple.imac-aluminum-20	iMac7,1 iMac8,1
(null)	com.apple.imac-aluminum-24	iMac9,1
(null)	com.apple.imac-unibody-21	iMac11,2 iMac12,1
(null)	com.apple.imac-unibody	iMac10,1 iMac11,1 iMac11,3 iMac12,2
MacBook	com.apple.macbook	MacBook
(null)	com.apple.macbook-white	MacBook1,1 MacBook2,1 MacBook3,1 MacBook4,1 MacBook5,2 MacBook1,1,White MacBook2,1,White MacBook3,1,White MacBook4,1,White
(null)	com.apple.macbook-black	MacBook1,1,Black MacBook2,1,Black MacBook3,1,Black MacBook4,1,Black
(null)	com.apple.macbook-unibody	MacBook5,1
(null)	com.apple.macbook-unibody-plastic	MacBook6,1 MacBook7,1
(null)	com.apple.macbookpro-13-unibody	MacBookPro5,5 MacBookPro7,1 MacBookPro8,1
MacBook Pro	com.apple.macbookpro	MacBookPro
(null)	com.apple.macbookpro-15	MacBookPro1,1 MacBookPro2,2 MacBookPro3,1 MacBookPro4,1
(null)	com.apple.macbookpro-15-unibody	MacBookPro5,1 MacBookPro5,3 MacBookPro5,4 MacBookPro8,2
(null)	com.apple.macbookpro-17-unibody	MacBookPro5,2 MacBookPro6,1 MacBookPro8,3
(null)	com.apple.macbookpro-17	MacBookPro1,2 MacBookPro2,1
MacBook Air	com.apple.macbookair	MacBookAir1,1 MacBookAir2,1
(null)	com.apple.macbookair-11-unibody	MacBookAir3,1 MacBookAir4,1
(null)	com.apple.macbookair-13-unibody	MacBookAir MacBookAir3,2 MacBookAir4,2
Mac Pro	com.apple.macpro	MacPro MacPro1,1 MacPro2,1 MacPro3,1 MacPro4,1 MacPro5,1
Apple TV	com.apple.apple-tv	AppleTV AppleTV1,1
iPhone	com.apple.iphone	M68AP iPhone1,1
iPhone 3G	com.apple.iphone-3g	N82AP iPhone1,2
iPhone 3GS	com.apple.iphone-3gs	N88AP iPhone2,1
iPhone 4	com.apple.iphone-4	N90AP iPhone iPhone3,1
iPod	com.apple.ipod	iPod
iPod touch	com.apple.ipod-touch	N45AP iPod1,1
iPod touch	com.apple.ipod-touch-2	N72AP iPod2,1
iPod touch	com.apple.ipod-touch-3	N18AP iPod3,1
iPod touch	com.apple.ipod-touch-4	N81AP iPod4,1
iPad	com.apple.ipad	K48AP iPad iPad1,1
AirPort Express	com.apple.airport-express	AirPort4 AirPort4,102 AirPort4,107
AirPort Extreme	com.apple.airport	AirPort AirPort5 AirPort5,104 AirPort5,105 AirPort5,108 AirPort5,114 AirPort5,117
Time Capsule	com.apple.time-capsule	AirPort6 AirPort6,106 TimeCapsule TimeCapsule6 TimeCapsule6,106 TimeCapsule6,109 TimeCapsule6,113 TimeCapsule6,116

First we nee Bonjour to multicast the DNS-name of the server. This is implemented by avahi. (Why does it nee to install so many X ports…?)

# cd /usr/ports/net/avahi
# make install clean

Now start the daemons (remember to modify rc.conf)

#Avahi
avahi_daemon_enable=”YES”
dbus_enable=”YES”

# /usr/local/etc/rc.d/dbus start
# /usr/local/etc/rc.d/avahi-daemon start

Now we need a service talking AFP: netatalk

# cd /usr/ports/net/netatalk
# make install clean

Plex and Plex Media Server (PMS) comes to mind.

There is, however, not a port for FreeBSD of PMS. But fortunately there is good Linux support in FreeBSD, so I was hoping to get support that way… Here is what I tried:

Install Linux support:

cd /usr/ports/emulators/linux_base-gentoo-stage3
make install clean

Download: plexmediaserver_0.9.5.2-7a18da4_i386 from plexapp.com

Unpack it using ar.

Find the file  data.tar.gz and extract the contents in the root of /compat/linux.

Try to start the PMS:

chroot /compat/linux/usr/sbin/start_pms

It fails… The kernel emulation of Linux sys call does not implement epoll – which is used by PMS Even a patch will not solve the problem.

So – don’t go this way for support of PMS in FreeBSD…

I have 4 Western Digital disks with data – all in RAID-Z. And because they are Western Digital, they have 4K sectors and don’t work well with ZFS. So I also have encrypted them with geli – a standard trick.

I had a huge problem attaching the geli devices after reinstall.

The devices have changed names, and the geli attach will fail if using the “alias” device :-/

So if using e.g. ad6s1e as provider under 8.2, then attach will fail under 9.0 with:

geli: Provider ad6s1e is invalid

The /dev/ad6s1e is now an alias for /dev/ada0s1e (look in the dmesg).

So remember to keep this in mind when editing rc.conf and loader.conf. Also remember to copy the zpool.cache in /boot/zfs in order for the zfs mounts to work.

But I want to watch it on my Apple TV

That is where XBMC comes in. Just add it via the Add-on manager in XBMC.

I want a very small install – no doc, no games, no lib32, no src (I’m ok with the prebuilt kernels).

So I just selected ports – I want to be able to add ports.

It turns out that after boot I needed to install the following ports (with their dependencies):

• bash
• screen
• sudo
• portupgrade