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AFP (Apple Filing Protocol) is a proprietary network and file services protocol for Mac OS.

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Mounting a folder that is on a Time Capsule

We don't so much have a file server in our little office, so I thought we could maybe use an Apple Time Capsule (which I already have). I'm having trouble mounting it, with the following: mount -t afp afp://10.0.1.1 /Volumes/test This error is…
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Slow File Transfer Macbook to Synology/Proxmox Server using AFP

Noticed slow transfer speeds of ~35 MB/s when sending a single 5 GB file from my Macbook Pro to my NAS running on Xpenology/Synology in a Proxmox VM. The NAS is first mounted onto the Macbook Pro using AFP over TCP , then the file is dragged and…
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Transfer 300+ GB at maximum speed on two headless servers?

I am currently trying to transfer over 300GB from my Mac Pro server to my Synology NAS. I only have my Windows PC I can work from, but I can SSH into both devices. They are both connected to gigabit ethernet, which I have tested and which works very…
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Turn old computer into WAN accessible file server?

I need to create a file server (possibly smb?) out of an old computer I have. This essentially needs to be a network drive that can be accessed over WAN by a Mac. The server can be Windows, Linux, or Mac based. I know that SMB, NFS, and even…
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Allow guest read/write access to Netatalk AFP share

I am running Netatalk 3.14dev on Ubuntu 14.04. This box is being used as a webserver and we already have a Samba share pointed at the /var/www folder to allow our developers to work on sites hosted on the server. The Samba share is configured to…
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AFP Share Mounting Issues

I have setup some AFP shares on our bespoke NAS system running FreeNas but seem to be encountering some issues. All the permissions are the same and the shares setup exactly the same way. I have 4 shares, Data1, Data2, Data3 & Data4. When connecting…
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mount_afp on linux, user rights

I need to mount a remote filesystem on a linux box using the afp protocol. The linux box runs an old Debian 4. I downloaded the source code of mount_afp, compiled it and installed it with all the required packages. Then created /etc/fuse with the…
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Shell script to fix bad filenames?

I'm IT at my small firm; and, despite my dire warnings, everyone puts files on the server with awful names, including leading & trailing spaces, bad characters (including \ ; / + . < > - etc!) They do this by accessing the (FreeBSD/FreeNAS) server…
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Mac data Backup-ped via SAMBA instead AFP: is it a bad thing?

i've a QNAP Nas, but at the moment the AFP protocol seems to be bugged. I've an office with 5 mac who saves data into a Mac Server. I want to backup data via Samba protocol to the Qnap Nas Server EXT4 server. May is this a bad thing ? Samba will…
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Protect subfolders in a public share

CentOS box with smb and afp. There is a a share that everyone has read/write access to, I want to prevent a couple folders within that share from being able deleted, but still allowing full read/write within them.From my reading of the chmod…
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Automounting AFP Share For OpenDirectory Users (Mac Lion Server)

We're moving all our Mac's from local logins to OpenDirectory logins in an effort to keep everything secure and to also solve issues we have with a Tiger server buggering permissions on an AFP shared drive. To cut it short, I want users to be able…
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Trouble with Microsoft Word 2008 and AFP Sharing

Currently, I have a central server that is accessed by many users through AFP sharing. Sometimes, multiple users may have the same Word document open, while other times it may just be one user and one document at a time. No matter what the case may…
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MacOS creates a new mount on AFP path calls

following scenario: In my webapp, my customers are using Firefox as target browser. They have the need to open afp:// folders via Javascript. To make a long story short, this really works. You need to setup Firefox with about:config and set the…
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Updating AFP version on Windows Server 2003

We have a couple of Macs, running Leopard and Snow Leopard in our otherwise pure Windows environment. We cannot get file names longer than 31 characters and some times the file permissions gets scrabbled (users can't delete their own folders or…
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How do I silently mount AFP shares on OS X 10.5 clients?

I can add the share to the login startup items, but it always pops open Finder. I want the AFP share to mount silently. This is in a Mac computer lab with the Macs joined to AD.
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