Mounting AFP share on Linux

[Anonymous]

Hi,

I have a Linux server that mainly shares files via sftp to my friends and such. However, most of my good stuff is on my Father’s iMac, which I am not admin for. I am looking for a way of mounting shared folders on the iMac on my Linux server via AFP.

I thought I might have some luck with netatalk, recently upgraded to netatalk 2. However, that allows Linux to share via AFP, but not mount AFP on Linux.

I will be grateful for any suggestions.

[Anonymous]

you can’t. ask him for a ssh or a smb account.
You can find info in the old netatlk page.

[Anonymous]

My attempt at compiling that ‘tool’ failed, and I don’t think I want to try and debug it. Thanks anyway, though.

I do have an ssh account, and using sftp I might be able to mount something. I am thinking something like the mount_ftp program that Apple uses.

Cheers,

[mguertin]

That old linux afp stuff is horribly out of date and should not be used … if you do manage to get it compiled and ‘working’ you can stand the risk of losing a lot of data (anything it opens) … it doesn’t support locking and several other key features it needs to!

AFAIK there is no current way to mount AFP shares in linux, and I don’t see any more move towards it (esp. considering that with Tiger and above i bet apple will move to smb and slowly phase out afp totally :/ )

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