Connecting to AFP shares

[zim2dive]

Ok, ignorant question...

Does netatalk also work as an AFP client? or just as a server? (in which case I would need both netatalk and afpfs

(so that my Mac can mount the drives on my Jaunty HTPC and my HTPC can mount the "AirDisk" I have hanging off my Airport Extreme)

I guess I could just set up the jaunty box to share SMB (for access from the Mac).. any idea of the performance difference?

thanks,
Mike

[zim2dive]

1 note and a question

I installed under Jaunty with

sudo apt-get install netatalk

and I think it started right up.. it did not restart after a reboot so I had to edit /etc/netatalk/atakd.conf and uncomment eth0.

I've added a 2nd drive to my Jaunty box... mounted under /media/backups.

Question: How do I get this volume offered up via netatalk? I only get the 1 main drive.

[tiepolo]

Hello,

I'm using afpfs with success
I can automatically mount afp remote files in ubuntu with this instruction : mount_afp afp://userassword@ipaddress/'Documenti Server' /media/localfilename user=myuser

but I can't obtain fstab to do it automatically

afpfs#afp://userassword@ipaddress/'Documenti Server' /media/localfilename fuse user=myuser,group=fuse 0 0

I obtain : mount point Server does not exists, or, if I do
sudo mount -a

invalid line number......

I believe a problem with the space in 'Documenti Server' but don't know how to solve

If I use

afpfs#afp://userassword@ipaddress/Documenti\040Server /media/localfilename fuse user=myuser,group=fuse 0 0

I get Incorrect permissions on mountpoint Server: No such file or directory

Paolo

[hydraconsole]

my wife shares her files folders from her macbook. I can mount the folder in my karmic koala with her credentials but when i use the

ls -l mountpoint

it comes up with my uid and gid instead of her credentials. i'm having permissions error with a shared file. i want to know how to use the --map <uam> flag. the man page said that it should make the files appear to be owned by the uid and gid of the userid i used to authenticate.

any help would be great.

[lethalfang]

I installed afpfs-ng on two computers.
On one, I downloaded and compiled it from source code on a Ubuntu 10.04 x64 machine. On another, I downloaded the .deb and installed it on a 32-bit machine.

When I do the following command:

mount_afp afp://UserName:Password@www.webaddress.com/Folder ~/localfolder

I get the following:

Mounting www.webaddress.com from Folder on /home/username/localfolder/
Could not connect, Connection refused


What did I do wrong?

Thanks in advance.


EDIT: I figured out what was wrong. I typed the wrong web address. HA! How silly. I typed ".org" when it should've been ".net!"

[speedwolf]

I really like the simple access that afpfs gives me in getting to my files.

It works fine when I mount_afp from the CLI and allows me to mount the target with no issues. Sadly the same cannot be said of the fstab approach which is what I need.

The CLI entry looks like this:

mount_afp afp://remoteuser:password@remotehost/targetfolder /mount/point

And results in:

The afpfs daemon does not appear to be running for uid 1000, let me start it for you
Mounting remotehost from targetfolder on /mount/point
Mounting of volume Sites of server users MacBook succeeded.

The fstab entry looks like this:

afpfs#afp://remoteuser:pass@remotehost/targetfolder   /mount/point   fuse    user=localuser,group=fuse       0 0

But the result is this:

The afpfs daemon does not appear to be running for uid 1000, let me start it for you
Could not find server (afpfsd)
Error in starting up afpfsd
Trying to startup afpfsd: No such file or directory
The afpfs daemon does not appear to be running for uid 1000, let me start it for you
Could not find server (afpfsd)
Error in starting up afpfsd
Trying to startup afpfsd: No such file or directory
Trying to startup afpfsd: No such file or directory

Then it dies. Can someone give me a little heads up on how to fix this if at all possible?

Forgot to mention that it's afpfs-ng 0.8.1, Ubuntu 10.10 and Mac OS X 10.6

[Wolf-Jakob Gratz]

I can't get this to work. I always get this error:

mount_afp afp://wolfo:password@192.168.0.1/UNTITLED /home/wolfo/temporaer

Mounting 192.168.0.1 from UNTITLED on /home/wolfo/temporaer
Could not connect, Connection refused

The target server is an Airport Extreme sharing a USB disk (UNTITLED). I am able to connect to that share from other Macs, but not from my linux server.
Any ideas?

[rkevsmith]

I wrote afpfs-ng, so I can probably help.

Building afpfs-ng requires first installing the readline development libraries, you should do that first.

Did you try the prebuilt afpfs-ng debian package?

- A

Hi Alex,

Thanks for putting afpfs-ng together.

I keep getting closer to mounting my time capsule's disk, I think.

I've run into a similar situation as tiepolo above.

Here's what I'm trying:

keverage@cuauhtemoc:~$ mount_afp afp://;AUTH=No%20User%20Authent@192.168.1.101/coffre ~/capsule -o volpass=v0lp@SS
Incorrect permissions on mountpoint (null): No such file or directory
bash: /home/keverage/capsule: is a directory
keverage@cuauhtemoc:~$

[rkevsmith]

I'm in. I changed configurations on my Time Capsule to allow for accounts, instead of Time Capsule password.

Thanks for this. All best,
K

[SpoBo]

I'm a bit of a linux noob but I'm planning to learn a lot more of it. Running 11.04

I need to share my Drobo which is connected to an Airport Extreme. I had no succes using SMB so nbow I'm trying afp. I tried the afpfs-ng package and I am able to mount my drive using the following command:
sudo mount_afp afp://rootass@w00p.local/Drobo /media/drobo/

first I did sudo mkdir /media/drobo
sudo chown vincent /media/drobo

The problem though is that the files are only readable when I use sudo. Like sudo ls /media/drobo.

Trying to access my files in XBMC so this is not working for me

I"'m also unable to get it mounted through fstab. This is my line but it gives me the error at the end.
afpfs#afp://rootass@w00p.local/Drobo /media/drobo fuse user=vincent,group=vincent 0 0

vincent@HTPC:~$ sudo mount -a
Unknown option dev, skipping
Unknown option suid, skipping
The afpfs daemon does not appear to be running for uid 1000, let me start it for you
Could not find server (afpfsd)
Error in starting up afpfsd
Trying to startup afpfsd: No such file or directory
The afpfs daemon does not appear to be running for uid 1000, let me start it for you
Could not find server (afpfsd)
Error in starting up afpfsd
Trying to startup afpfsd: No such file or directory
Trying to startup afpfsd: No such file or directory

For the record, I did the mount -a command after I manually mounted the drobo in media/. So I think the afpfs daemon should be running, no?