MOUNT_AFP(8)

💖 MOUNT_AFP(8) 💖

okay bestie, buckle up, we're doing the mount_afp page from the System Manager's Manual and honestly? it's giving "mount an afp (AppleShare) filesystem using FUSE". iconic. let's go 🦋

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✨ NAME ✨

mount_afp — mount an afp (AppleShare) filesystem using FUSE

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

mount_afp [-o options] afp_url node

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✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

so the mount_afp command mounts the AFP volume denoted by the afp_url

afp://[user[;AUTH=uamname][:password]@]host[:port]/volumename

at the mount point indicated by node. literally just vibes and mounting 💅

this is normally a symlink to the afp_client(1) executable, which is a full implementation to mount AFP volumes using the FUSE infrastructure. it talks to afpfsd, a daemon that manages AFP sessions. and the arguments and options are, bestie, as follows:

• -o — options passed to mount(2) are specified with the -o option followed by a comma separated string of options. (there's a man page for possible options and their meanings, go read it 👀). Additional options supported by the AFP Client are as follows:
  • volpass=<password> — The only available option is -o volpassword=XXX to set the volume password (since there is no facility for that in an AFP URL).
  • rw — Mount the volume as writeable. This is the default, so it has no effect. (yes it just sits there being decorative, we love a low-effort icon ✨)
  • ro — Mount the volume as readonly.
  • group=<groupname> — Mount the volume as groupname.
  • user=<username> — Mount the volume as username.
• afp_url — There are two forms of afp URL, one for TCP/IP and one for AppleTalk:

afp://[user[;AUTH=uamname][:password]@]host[:port]/volume

afp:/at/[user[;AUTH=uamname][:password]@]servername[:zonename]/volume

Denotes the afp server and sharepoint to mount. It may also contain the username & password required to log into the server. uamname is the protocol name of the authentication method. If port is not specified, then port 548 is used.

• node — Path to mount point, which must be a directory that the user has write permissions for. 🫶

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✨ EXAMPLES ✨

The following example illustrates how to mount the afp volume server.company.com/volumename/ at the mount point /Volumes/mntpnt:

mkdir /Volumes/mntpnt
mount_afp afp://username:userpass@server.company.com/volumename/ /Volumes/mntpnt

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This example shows the proper url to use to mount the volume guestVolume from the afp server myserver as guest:

mkdir /Volumes/guest
mount_afp "afp://;AUTH=No%20User%20Authent@myserver/guestVolume" /Volumes/guest

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The following shows how to use a username of "user:name" and password of "p@ssword": server.company.com/volumename/ at the mount point /Volumes/mntpnt:

mkdir /Volumes/mntpnt
mount_afp afp://user::name:p@@ssword@server.company.com/volumename/ /Volumes/mntpnt

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This example shows the proper url to use to mount the volume myVolume from the afp server myserver using Kerberos authentication:

mkdir /Volumes/myVolume
mount_afp "afp://;AUTH=Client%20Krb%20v2@myserver/myVolume" /Volumes/myVolume

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✨ SEE ALSO ✨

afp_client(1) (for a more AFP commands), afpcmd(1) (for a non-FUSE command line AFP client),

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✨ HISTORY ✨

The mount_afp command first appeared Mac OS X version 10.0. Kerberos authentication was added in Mac OS X version 10.2. This syntax (and manpage) was used for afpfs-ng's fuse implementation. a little lore drop for you, bestie 📜✨

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✨ RETURN VALUES ✨

• 0 — mount_afp successfully mounted the volume directory. slay. 💅
• -1 — The server volume could not be mounted. 😭

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✨ SEE ALSO ✨

afp_client(1), afpfsd(1)

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and that's the whole page, no cap. this one came from Mac OS X and it's dated Feb 1, 2008 — a lil vintage queen 👑💖 go forth and mount responsibly 🎀