AFP (Apple Filing Protocol) is a proprietary network and file services protocol for Mac OS.
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How do I mount an AFP share at startup (not at login) on OS X 10.4 Tiger Server?
I'm setting up an OS X 10.4 Tiger Server box - just for the fun of it rather than for any serious purpose. I'd like to run a simple backup script daily, regardless of whether any user is currently logged in, and I'd like the script to have access…
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Turnkey LAMP to host AFP mounted directory
I'm trying to use a TurnKey LAMP server as a sandbox web-development environment for a project with components in php and binary executables. My host machine is OS 10.6. I want to use AFP to serve a directory from my host machine so that I can…
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Slow netatalk authentication / connectio speed
i have a netatalk server running on ubuntu server 10.04.1. connecting and moving files works generally, but, when connecting / authenticating the server needs so much time. when i connect using my mac (10.6), the login prompt comes up quickly, but…
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Netatalk sharing filename limitation
I want to share file from my linux box to OSX clients. I don't want to use SMB !
I'm using netatalk 2.1.2 but apparently there is a filname length limitation :
I've tried "123456789012345678901234567.avi" (31 characters long), and it works but when…
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Apple file sharing: bind to a specific interface
My customer have an office small office with just a wifi router. He use this router for internet connectivity and file transfer operations between the desktops.
Recently the file transfer activity between desktop (all osx based) is increased a lot…
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Very slow connection to xserve via afp or smb
Help. File transfer and connection speed to our Xserve are painfully slow from newly purchased iMacs. The Xserve is only used as a file server, its running 10.4.11. The problem seems to be only happening on brand new iMacs running 10.6.3. When…
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Errors log in the auth.log but all working fine
Hi I have a Linux server (18.04) that acts as a TimeMachine backup server using the netatalk service.
The users are authenticating using the LDAP (/etc/ldap.conf)
The client can connect to the AFP mount do the TimeMachine backup and log out just…
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Need a 3rd party tool for AFP Server 2008
I have a client that has a mixed environment of Windows XP and 7, and Mac Lion and Snow Leopard. We recently upgraded their server from Windows 2k3 to Windows 2k8 and realized Microsoft has dropped support for SFM and AFP. I have found ExtremeZ-IP…
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