Connect to an Xserve AFP Share As Root?

[tim914]

Title says it all – can this be done? If I use AFP to connect to our Xserve, the shared volume is mounted as my administrative user. Because of this, even if I am root on my G4, there are files on the Xserve that I can’t access (they belong to other users or root on the Xserve).

Of course, I can mount as root using NFS, but then we get into the resource fork loss arena and that’s a whole new set of headaches.

Anybody figured this one out? Or, is it a lost cause?

[tim914]

Thanks, Joel,

[EDIT] Spoke too soon, the remote system is still telling me that I have an Unknown user, invalid password, or log on is disabled.

If I issue:

[code:1:18e1fe38b6]niutil -readprop . /config/AppleFileServer allow_root_login[/code:1:18e1fe38b6]

it returns a 1. Does this one need to restart the AFP server?

I can connect to it using any other user name on that system.

Tim

[tim914]

Rerstarted and can now connect, but no volumes (there are 2) are displayed to pick from.

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Tim

[Cabbage]

This definitely used to work, have you tried with 10.2.8.

[tim914]

I’ve tried with 10.2.6 and 10.2.8. Same result.

The connection is allowed, but none of the shared volumes are listed.

Thanks for the persistence on this.

Tim

[tim914]

I’ve now gone into Workgroup Manager’s Sharing tab and made sure that my volumes are shared properly. I even took this so far as to make the root volume shared. No filesystems are listed on the client system when I connect as root.

Tim

[Anonymous]

Hmm. Same problem here. I have two xservers one replicates shared data to the other (or is supposed to). The problem is that the best software around to do this doesn’t copy 100% due to file permissions even though the remote mounted the afp shares with an admin account (not root). I wrote a simple script intended to chown and chmod both the local and remote shares before backup thus ensuring all files are copied. As I can only do this as root, I cannot access the files on the remote share.

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