.\}

 name = value 
 

.\}

 [baz]
 path = /foo/bar 

.\}

 [Homes]
 path = afp-data
 basedir regex = /home

.\}

 [Homes]
 basedir regex = /usr/home

\h'-04' 1.\h'+01'\c .\}

\h'-04' 2.\h'+01'\c .\}

basename

client\*(Aqs ip address

volume pathname on server

full name (contents of the gecos field in the passwd file)

group name

hostname

client\*(Aqs ip, without port

server name (this can be the hostname)

user name (if guest, it is the user that guest is running as)

volume name

prints dollar sign ($)

Append @DOMAIN to username when authenticating. Useful in Active Directory environments that otherwise would require the user to enter the full user@domain string.

Specifying eg "admin auth user = root" whenever a normal user login fails, afpd will try to authenticate as the specified admin auth user. If this succeeds, a normal session is created for the original connecting user. Said differently: if you know the password of admin auth user, you can authenticate as any other user.

These are required if the server supports the Kerberos 5 authentication UAM.

Use for eg. winbind authentication, prepends both strings before the username from login and then tries to authenticate with the result through the available and active UAM authentication modules.

Enables or disables the ability of clients to save passwords locally.

Enables or disables the ability of clients to change their passwords via chooser or the "connect to server" dialog.

Space or comma separated list of UAMs. (The default is "uams_dhx.so uams_dhx2.so"). The most commonly used UAMs are:

uams_guest.so

uams_clrtxt.so

uams_randum.so

uams_dhx.so

uams_dhx2.so

uam_gss.so

Sets the default path for UAMs for this server (default is @libdir@/netatalk).

Specifies the Mac clients charset, e.g. MAC_ROMAN. This is used to convert strings and filenames to the clients codepage for OS9 and Classic, i.e. for authentication and AFP messages (SIGUSR2 messaging). This will also be the default for the volumes mac charset. Defaults to MAC_ROMAN.

Specifies the servers unix charset, e.g. ISO-8859-15 or EUC-JP. This is used to convert strings to/from the systems locale, e.g. for authentication, server messages and volume names. If LOCALE is set, the systems locale is used. Defaults to UTF8.

Specifies the encoding of the volumes filesystem. By default, it is the same as unix charset.

Sets the path to the Randnum UAM passwd file for this server (default is @pkgconfdir@/afppasswd).

Sets the minimum password length, if supported by the UAM

Allows old Mac OS X clients (10.3.3-10.4) to automagically establish a tunneled AFP connection through SSH. If this option is set, the server\*(Aqs answers to client\*(Aqs FPGetSrvrInfo requests contain an additional entry. It depends on both client\*(Aqs settings and a correctly configured and running sshd(8) on the server to let things work. .\}

Specifies the network interfaces that the server should listens on. The default is advertise the first IP address of the system, but to listen for any incoming request.

Specifies the IP address that the server should advertise and listens to. The default is advertise the first IP address of the system, but to listen for any incoming request. The network address may be specified either in dotted-decimal format for IPv4 or in hexadecimal format for IPv6. IPv6 address + port combination must use URL the format using square brackets [IPv6]:port

Allows a different TCP port to be used for AFP. The default is 548. Also sets the default port applied when none specified in an afp listen option.

Specifies the IP address that the CNID server should listen on. The default is localhost:4700.

Keep disconnected AFP sessions for number hours before dropping them. Default is 24 hours.

Scale factor that determines the size of the DSI/TCP readahead buffer, default is 12. This is multiplies with the DSI server quantum (default ~300k) to give the size of the buffer. Increasing this value might increase throughput in fast local networks for volume to volume copies. Note: This buffer is allocated per afpd child process, so specifying large values will eat up large amount of memory (buffer size * number of clients).

Specifies a fully-qualified domain name, with an optional port. This is discarded if the server cannot resolve it. This option is not honored by AppleShare clients <= 3.8.3. This option is disabled by default. Use with caution as this will involve a second name resolution step on the client side. Also note that afpd will advertise this name:port combination but not automatically listen to it.

Use this instead of the result from calling hostname for determining which IP address to advertise, therefore the hostname is resolved to an IP which is the advertised. This is NOT used for listening and it is also overwritten by afp listen.

Sets the maximum number of clients that can simultaneously connect to the server (default is 200).

This specifies the DSI server quantum. The default value is 1 MB. The maximum value is 0xFFFFFFFFF, the minimum is 32000. If you specify a value that is out of range, the default value will be set. Do not change this value unless you\*(Aqre absolutely sure, what you\*(Aqre doing

Keep sleeping AFP sessions for number hours before disconnecting clients in sleep mode. Default is 10 hours.

Try to set TCP receive buffer using setsockpt(). Often OSes impose restrictions on the applications ability to set this value.

Try to set TCP send buffer using setsockpt(). Often OSes impose restrictions on the applications ability to set this value.

Whether to use sendfile syscall for sending file data to clients.

Whether to use automatic Zeroconf service registration if Avahi or mDNSResponder were compiled in.

Allows users of a certain group to be seen as the superuser when they log in. This option is disabled by default.

Whether to apply locks to the byte region read in FPRead calls. The AFP spec mandates this, but it\*(Aqs not really in line with UNIX semantics and is a performance hug.

Whether to provide AFP runtime statistics (connected users, open volumes) via dbus.

Regular expression which matches the parent directory of the user homes. If basedir regex contains symlink, you must set the canonicalized absolute path. In the simple case this is just a path ie basedir regex = /home

Whether to close volumes possibly opened by clients when they\*(Aqre removed from the configuration and the configuration is reloaded.

Specifies the IP address and port of a cnid_metad server, required for CNID dbd backend. Defaults to localhost:4700. The network address may be specified either in dotted-decimal format for IPv4 or in hexadecimal format for IPv6.-

Maximum possible entries in the directory cache. The cache stores directories and files. It is used to cache the full path to directories and CNIDs which considerably speeds up directory enumeration. Default size is 8192, maximum size is 131072. Given value is rounded up to nearest power of 2. Each entry takes about 100 bytes, which is not much, but remember that every afpd child process for every connected user has its cache.

Sets the path to the file which defines file extension type/creator mappings. (default is @pkgconfdir@/extmap.conf).

Specifies the user that guests should use (default is "nobody"). The name should be quoted.

AFP user home volume name. The default is user\*(Aqs home.

Sets a message to be displayed when clients logon to the server. The message should be in unix charset and should be quoted. Extended characters are allowed.

Speficy a set of file and directory attributes that shall be ignored by the server, <attribute>all</attribute> includes all the other options. In OS X when the Finder sets a lock on a file/directory or you set the BSD uchg flag in the Terminal, all three attributes are used. Thus in order to ignore the Finder lock/BSD uchg flag, add set ignored attributes = all.

Specifies the icon model that appears on clients. Defaults to off. Note that afpd must support Zeroconf. Examples: RackMac (same as Xserve), PowerBook, PowerMac, Macmini, iMac, MacBook, MacBookPro, MacBookAir, MacPro, AppleTV1,1, AirPort.

Specify a server signature. The maximum length is 16 characters. This option is useful for clustered environments, to provide fault isolation etc. By default, afpd generate signature and saving it to @localstatedir@/netatalk/afp_signature.conf automatically (based on random number). See also asip-status.pl(1).

Use share reservations on Solaris. Solaris CIFS server uses this too, so this makes a lock coherent multi protocol server.

Use section name as option preset for all volumes (when set in the [Global] section) or for one volume (when set in that volume\*(Aqs section).

Sets the database information to be stored in path. You have to specify a writable location, even if the volume is read only. The default is @localstatedir@/netatalk/CNID/.

Max length of UTF8-MAC volume name for Mac OS X. Note that Hangul is especially sensitive to this.

 73: limit of Mac OS X 10.1 80: limit of Mac
 OS X 10.4/10.5 (default) 255: limit of recent Mac OS
 X

Use section name as option preset for all volumes (when set in the [Global] section) or for one volume (when set in that volume\*(Aqs section).

If not specified Netatalk logs to syslogs daemon facility. Otherwise it logs to logfile.

Specify that any message of a loglevel up to the given log level should be logged. By default afpd logs to syslog with a default logging setup equivalent to default:note logtypes: default, afpdaemon, logger, uamsdaemon loglevels: severe, error, warn, note, info, debug, debug6, debug7, debug8, debug9, maxdebug .\}

Enables sending FCE events to the specified host, default port is 12250 if not specified. Specifying multiple listeners is done by having this option once for each of them.

Specifies which FCE events are active, default is fmod,fdel,ddel,fcre,dcre.

Coalesce FCE events.

This determines the time delay in seconds which is always waited if another file modification for the same file is done by a client before sending an FCE file modification event (fmod). For example saving a file in Photoshop would generate multiple events by itself because the application is opening, modifying and closing a file multiple times for every "save". Default: 60 seconds.

Sets the tickle timeout interval (in seconds). Defaults to 30.

Specify the number of tickles to send before timing out a connection. The default is 4, therefore a connection will timeout after 2 minutes.

With this option enabled, afpd won\*(Aqt advertise that it is capable of server notifications, so that connected clients poll the server every 10 seconds to detect changes in opened server windows. Note: Depending on the number of simultaneously connected clients and the network\*(Aqs speed, this can lead to a significant higher load on your network! Do not use this option any longer as present Netatalk correctly supports server notifications, allowing connected clients to update folder listings in case another client changed the contents.

none

rights

mode

Authentication method: none | simple | sasl

none

simple

sasl

Distinguished Name of the user for simple bind.

Distinguished Name of the user for simple bind.

Name or IP address of your LDAP Server. This is only needed for explicit ACL support in order to be able to query LDAP for UUIDs. You can use afpldaptest(1) to syntactically check your config.

DN of the user container in LDAP.

Search scope for user search: base | one | sub

DN of the group container in LDAP.

Search scope for user search: base | one | sub

Name of the LDAP attribute with the UUIDs. Note: this is used both for users and groups.

Name of the LDAP attribute with the users short name.

Format of the uuid string in the directory. A series of x and -, where every x denotes a value 0-9a-f and every - is a separator. Default: xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx

Format of the UUID of the LDAP attribute, allows usage of the binary objectGUID fields from Active Directory. If left unspecified, string is the default, which passes through the ASCII UUID returned by most other LDAP stores. If set to ms-guid, the internal UUID representation is converted to and from the binary format used in the objectGUID attribute found on objects in Active Directory when interacting with the server.

string

ms-guid

Name of the LDAP attribute with the groups short name.

The path name must be a fully qualified path name.

Specify the format of the metadata files, which are used for saving Mac resource fork as well. Earlier versions used AppleDouble v2, the new default format is ea.

Useful for Time Machine: limits the reported volume size, thus preventing Time Machine from using the whole real disk space for backup. Example: "vol size limit = 1000" would limit the reported disk space to 1 GB. IMPORTANT: This is an approximated calculation taking into account the contents of Time Machine sparsebundle images. Therefor you MUST NOT use this volume to store other content when using this option, because it would NOT be accounted. The calculation works by reading the band size from the Info.plist XML file of the sparsebundle, reading the bands/ directory counting the number of band files, and then multiplying one with the other.

The allow option allows the users and groups that access a share to be specified. Users and groups are specified, delimited by spaces or commas. Groups are designated by a @ prefix. Names may be quoted in order to allow for spaces in names. Example:

valid users = user "user 2" @group "@group 2"

The deny option specifies users and groups who are not allowed access to the share. It follows the same format as the "valid users" option.

Only listed hosts and networks are allowed, all others are rejected. The network address may be specified either in dotted-decimal format for IPv4 or in hexadecimal format for IPv6. Example: hosts allow = 10.1.0.0/16 10.2.1.100 2001:0db8:1234::/48

Listed hosts and nets are rejected, all others are allowed. Example: hosts deny = 192.168.100/24 10.1.1.1 2001:db8::1428:57ab

set the CNID backend to be used for the volume, default is [@DEFAULT_CNID_SCHEME@] available schemes: [@compiled_backends@]

Specify how Extended Attributes are stored. auto is the default.

auto

sys

ad

none

specifies the Mac client charset for this Volume, e.g. MAC_ROMAN, MAC_CYRILLIC. If not specified the global setting is applied. This setting is only required if you need volumes, where the Mac charset differs from the one globally set in the [Global] section.

The casefold option handles, if the case of filenames should be changed. The available options are: tolower - Lowercases names in both directions. toupper - Uppercases names in both directions. xlatelower - Client sees lowercase, server sees uppercase. xlateupper - Client sees uppercase, server sees lowercase.

This option allows you to set a volume password, which can be a maximum of 8 characters long (using ASCII strongly recommended at the time of this writing).

Add(or) with the client requested permissions: file perm is for files only, directory perm is for directories only. Don\*(Aqt use with "unix priv = no".

Example. Volume for a collaborative workgroup

file perm = 0660 directory perm =
 0770

set perm mask. Don\*(Aqt use with "unix priv = no".

command to be run when the volume is mounted, ignored for user defined volumes

command to be run when the volume is closed, ignored for user defined volumes

command to be run as root when the volume is mounted, ignored for user defined volumes

command to be run as root when the volume is closed, ignored for user defined volumes

Allows certain users and groups to have read-only access to a share. This follows the allow option format.

Allows certain users and groups to have read/write access to a share. This follows the allow option format.

hide files and directories,where the path matches one of the \*(Aq/\*(Aq delimited vetoed names. The veto string must always be terminated with a \*(Aq/\*(Aq, eg. "veto1/", "veto1/veto2/".

Whether to flag volumes as supporting ACLs. If ACL support is compiled in, this is yes by default.

Whether to use the device number in the CNID backends. Helps when the device number is not constant across a reboot, eg cluster, ...

Whether automatic conversion from appledouble = v2 to appledouble = ea is performed when accessing filesystems from clients. This is generally useful, but costs some performance. It\*(Aqs recommendable to run dbd on volumes and do the conversion with that. Then this option can be set to no.

This option is used when Netatalk is attempting to delete a directory that contains one or more vetoed files or directories (see the veto files option). If this option is set to no (the default) then if a directory contains any non-vetoed files or directories then the directory delete will fail. This is usually what you want. If this option is set to yes, then Netatalk will attempt to recursively delete any files and directories within the vetoed directory.

The default setting is false thus symlinks are not followed on the server. This is the same behaviour as OS X\*(Aqs AFP server. Setting the option to true causes afpd to follow symlinks on the server. symlinks may point outside of the AFP volume, currently afpd doesn\*(Aqt do any checks for "wide symlinks".

make dot files invisible. WARNING: enabling this option will lead to unwanted sideeffects were OS X applications when saving files to a temporary file starting with a dot first, then renaming the temp file to its final name, result in the saved file being invisible. The only thing this option is useful for is making files that start with a dot invisible on Mac OS 9. It\*(Aqs completely useless on Mac OS X, as both in Finder and in Terminal files starting with a dot are hidden anyway.

Whether the server support network ids. Setting this to no will result in the client not using ACL AFP functions.

A non-zero return code from preexec close the volume being immediately, preventing clients to mount/see the volume in question.

Specifies the share as being read only for all users. Overwrites ea = auto with ea = none

A non-zero return code from root_preexec closes the volume immediately, preventing clients to mount/see the volume in question.

Use fast CNID database namesearch instead of slow recursive filesystem search. Relies on a consistent CNID database, ie Samba or local filesystem access lead to inaccurate or wrong results. Works only for "dbd" CNID db volumes.

Whether to stat volume path when enumerating volumes list, useful for automounting or volumes created by a preexec script.

Whether to enable Time Machine support for this volume.

Whether to use AFP3 UNIX privileges. This should be set for OS X clients. See also: file perm, directory perm and umask.

"Concurrent database", backend is based on Oracle Berkley DB. With this backend several afpd daemons access the CNID database directly. Berkeley DB locking is used to synchronize access, if more than one afpd process is active for a volume. The drawback is, that the crash of a single afpd process might corrupt the database.

Access to the CNID database is restricted to the cnid_metad daemon process. afpd processes communicate with the daemon for database reads and updates. If built with Berkeley DB transactions the probability for database corruption is practically zero, but performance can be slower than with cdb

This backend is an exception, in terms of ID persistency. ID\*(Aqs are only valid for the current session. This is basically what afpd did in the 1.5 (and 1.6) versions. This backend is still available, as it is useful for e.g. sharing cdroms. Starting with Netatalk 3.0, it becomes the read only mode automatically. Warning: It is NOT recommended to use this backend for volumes anymore, as afpd now relies heavily on a persistent ID database. Aliases will likely not work and filename mangling is not supported.