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.\" Title: afp.conf
.\" Author: [FIXME: author] [see http://docbook.sf.net/el/author]
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-.\" Date: 23 Feb 2012
+.\" Generator: DocBook XSL Stylesheets v1.78.0 <http://docbook.sf.net/>
+.\" Date: 19 Feb 2013
.\" Manual: Netatalk 3.0
.\" Source: Netatalk 3.0
.\" Language: English
.\"
-.TH "AFP\&.CONF" "5" "23 Feb 2012" "Netatalk 3.0" "Netatalk 3.0"
+.TH "AFP\&.CONF" "5" "19 Feb 2013" "Netatalk 3.0" "Netatalk 3.0"
+.\" -----------------------------------------------------------------
+.\" * Define some portability stuff
+.\" -----------------------------------------------------------------
+.\" ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+.\" http://bugs.debian.org/507673
+.\" http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/groff/2009-02/msg00013.html
+.\" ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+.ie \n(.g .ds Aq \(aq
+.el .ds Aq '
.\" -----------------------------------------------------------------
.\" * set default formatting
.\" -----------------------------------------------------------------
.RS 4
.\}
.nf
- \fIname\fR = \fIvalue \fR
-
+ \fIname\fR = \fIvalue \fR
+
.fi
.if n \{\
.RE
Any line beginning with a semicolon (\(lq;\(rq) or a hash (\(lq#\(rq) character is ignored, as are lines containing only whitespace\&.
.PP
Any line ending in a
-\(lq\e\(rq
+\(lq \e \(rq
is continued on the next line in the customary UNIX fashion\&.
.PP
The values following the equals sign in parameters are all either a string (no quotes needed) or a boolean, which may be given as yes/no, 1/0 or true/false\&. Case is not significant in boolean values, but is preserved in string values\&. Some items such as create masks are numeric\&.
\fIvol preset\fR
which can be selected in other volume sections via the
\fBvol preset\fR
-option and constitutes defaults for the volume\&. For any option speficied both in a preset
+option and constitutes defaults for the volume\&. For any option specified both in a preset
\fIand\fR
-in a volume section the volume section setting completly substitutes the preset option\&.
+in a volume section the volume section setting completely substitutes the preset option\&.
.PP
The access rights granted by the server are masked by the access rights granted to the specified or guest UNIX user by the host system\&. The server does not grant more access than the host system grants\&.
.PP
.RS 4
.\}
.nf
- [baz]
- path = /foo/bar
-
+ [baz]
+ path = /foo/bar
.fi
.if n \{\
.RE
.\}
-.sp
.SH "SPECIAL SECTIONS"
.SS "The [Global] section"
.PP
This section enable sharing of the UNIX server user home directories\&. Specifying an optional
\fBpath\fR
parameter means that not the whole user home will be shared but the subdirectory
-\fBpath\fR\&. It is neccessary to define the
+\fBpath\fR\&. It is necessary to define the
\fBbasedir regex\fR
option\&. It should be a regex which matches the parent directory of the user homes\&. Parameters denoted by a (H) belong to volume sections\&. The optional parameter
-\fBname\fR
+\fBhome name\fR
can be used to change the AFP volume name which
-\fIusers\'s home\fR
+\fI$u\*(Aqs home\fR
by default\&. See below under VARIABLE SUBSTITUTIONS\&.
.PP
The following example illustrates this\&. Given all user home directories are stored under
.RS 4
.\}
.nf
- [Homes]
- path = afp\-data
- basedir regex = /home
-
+ [Homes]
+ path = afp\-data
+ basedir regex = /home
.fi
.if n \{\
.RE
\fIjohn\fR
this results in an AFP home volume with a path of
/home/john/afp\-data\&.
+.PP
+If
+\fBbasedir regex\fR
+contains symlink, set the canonicalized absolute path\&. When
+/home
+links to
+/usr/home:
+.sp
+.if n \{\
+.RS 4
+.\}
+.nf
+ [Homes]
+ basedir regex = /usr/home
+.fi
+.if n \{\
+.RE
+.\}
.SH "PARAMETERS"
.PP
Parameters define the specific attributes of sections\&.
.PP
Some parameters are specific to the [Global] section (e\&.g\&.,
-\fIlogtype\fR)\&. All others are permissible only in volume sections\&. The letter
+\fIlog type\fR)\&. All others are permissible only in volume sections\&. The letter
\fIG\fR
in parentheses indicates that a parameter is specific to the [Global] section\&. The letter
\fIV\fR
indicates that a parameter can be specified in a volume specific section\&.
.SH "VARIABLE SUBSTITUTIONS"
.PP
-You can use variables in both volume path and volume name\&.
+You can use variables in volume names\&. The use of variables in paths is not supported for now\&.
.sp
.RS 4
.ie n \{\
.sp -1
.IP " 2." 4.2
.\}
-if you specify a known variable, but that variable doesn\'t have a value, it will get ignored\&.
+if you specify a known variable, but that variable doesn\*(Aqt have a value, it will get ignored\&.
.RE
.PP
The variables which can be used for substitutions are:
.PP
$c
.RS 4
-client\'s ip address
+client\*(Aqs ip address
.RE
.PP
$d
.PP
$i
.RS 4
-client\'s ip, without port
+client\*(Aqs ip, without port
.RE
.PP
$s
.RS 4
prints dollar sign ($)
.RE
+.SH "EXPLANATION OF GLOBAL PARAMETERS"
+.SS "Authentication Options"
.PP
-\fBExample.\ \&Using variable substitution when defining volumes\fR
+ad domain = \fIDOMAIN\fR \fB(G)\fR
+.RS 4
+Append @DOMAIN to username when authenticating\&. Useful in Active Directory environments that otherwise would require the user to enter the full user@domain string\&.
+.RE
.PP
-.if n \{\
+admin auth user = \fIuser\fR \fB(G)\fR
.RS 4
-.\}
-.nf
- [Groupdir for $g]
- /home/groups/$g
-
- [$f is the best one]
- ~
-
-.fi
-.if n \{\
+Specifying eg "\fBadmin auth user = root\fR" whenever a normal user login fails, afpd will try to authenticate as the specified
+\fBadmin auth user\fR\&. If this succeeds, a normal session is created for the original connecting user\&. Said differently: if you know the password of
+\fBadmin auth user\fR, you can authenticate as any other user\&.
+.RE
+.PP
+k5 keytab = \fIpath\fR \fB(G)\fR, k5 service = \fIservice\fR \fB(G)\fR, k5 realm = \fIrealm\fR \fB(G)\fR
+.RS 4
+These are required if the server supports the Kerberos 5 authentication UAM\&.
+.RE
+.PP
+nt domain = \fIDOMAIN\fR \fB(G)\fR, nt separator = \fISEPARATOR\fR \fB(G)\fR
+.RS 4
+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\&.
.RE
-.\}
-.sp
-We define "groupdirs" for each primary group and use a personalized server name for homedir shares\&.
-.SH "EXPLANATION OF GLOBAL PARAMETERS"
-.SS "Authentication Methods"
.PP
-uamlist = \fIuams list\fR \fB(G)\fR
+save password = \fIBOOLEAN\fR (default: \fIyes\fR) \fB(G)\fR
.RS 4
-Comma separated list of UAMs\&. (The default is uams_dhx\&.so,uams_dhx2\&.so)\&.
+Enables or disables the ability of clients to save passwords locally\&.
+.RE
+.PP
+set password = \fIBOOLEAN\fR (default: \fIno\fR) \fB(G)\fR
+.RS 4
+Enables or disables the ability of clients to change their passwords via chooser or the "connect to server" dialog\&.
+.RE
+.PP
+uam list = \fIuam list\fR \fB(G)\fR
+.RS 4
+Space or comma separated list of UAMs\&. (The default is "uams_dhx\&.so uams_dhx2\&.so")\&.
.sp
The most commonly used UAMs are:
.PP
.PP
uams_randum\&.so
.RS 4
-allows Random Number and Two\-Way Random Number Exchange for authentication (requires a separate file containing the passwords, either :ETCDIR:/afppasswd file or the one specified via
-\fB\-passwdfile\fR\&. See
+allows Random Number and Two\-Way Random Number Exchange for authentication (requires a separate file containing the passwords, either :ETCDIR:/afppasswd file or the one specified via "\fBpasswd file\fR"\&. See
\fBafppasswd\fR(1)
for details\&. (legacy)
.RE
.RE
.RE
.PP
-uampath = \fIpath\fR \fB(G)\fR
-.RS 4
-Sets the default path for UAMs for this server (default is :ETCDIR:/uams)\&.
-.RE
-.PP
-k5keytab = \fIpath\fR \fB(G)\fR, k5service = \fIservice\fR \fB(G)\fR, k5realm = \fIrealm\fR \fB(G)\fR
-.RS 4
-These are required if the server supports the Kerberos 5 authentication UAM\&.
-.RE
-.PP
-ntdomain = \fIDOMAIN\fR \fB(G)\fR, ntseparator = \fISEPERATOR\fR \fB(G)\fR
-.RS 4
-Use for eg\&. winbind authentication, prepends both strings before the username from login and then tries to authenticate with the result through the availabel and active UAM authentication modules\&.
-.RE
-.PP
-adminauthuser = \fIuser\fR \fB(G)\fR
+uam path = \fIpath\fR \fB(G)\fR
.RS 4
-Specifying eg
-\fBadminauthuser root\fR
-whenever a normal user login fails, afpd will try to authenticate as the specified
-\fBadminauthuser\fR\&. If this succeeds, a normal session is created for the original connecting user\&. Said differently: if you know the password of
-\fBadminauthuser\fR, you can authenticate as any other user\&.
+Sets the default path for UAMs for this server (default is :LIBDIR:/netatalk)\&.
.RE
+.SS "Charset Options"
.PP
-ldap_server = \fIhost\fR \fB(G)\fR
-.RS 4
-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\&.
-.sp
-You can use
-\fBafpldaptest\fR(1)
-to syntactically check your config\&.
-.RE
+With OS X Apple introduced the AFP3 protocol\&. One of the big changes was, that AFP3 uses Unicode names encoded as Decomposed UTF\-8 (UTF8\-MAC)\&. Previous AFP/OS versions used charsets like MacRoman, MacCentralEurope, etc\&.
.PP
-ldap_auth_method = \fInone|simple|sasl\fR \fB(G)\fR
-.RS 4
-Authentication method:
-\fBnone | simple | sasl\fR
-.PP
-none
-.RS 4
-anonymous LDAP bind
-.RE
-.PP
-simple
-.RS 4
-simple LDAP bind
-.RE
+To be able to serve AFP3 and older clients at the same time,
+\fBafpd\fR
+needs to be able to convert between UTF\-8 and Mac charsets\&. Even OS X clients partly still rely on the mac charset\&. As there\*(Aqs no way,
+\fBafpd\fR
+can detect the codepage a pre AFP3 client uses, you have to specify it using the
+\fBmac charset\fR
+option\&. The default is MacRoman, which should be fine for most western users\&.
.PP
-sasl
-.RS 4
-SASL\&. Not yet supported !
-.RE
-.RE
+As
+\fBafpd\fR
+needs to interact with UNIX operating system as well, it need\*(Aqs to be able to convert from UTF8\-MAC / Mac charset to the UNIX charset\&. By default
+\fBafpd\fR
+uses
+\fIUTF8\fR\&. You can set the UNIX charset using the
+\fBunix charset\fR
+option\&. If you\*(Aqre using extended characters in the configuration files for
+\fBafpd\fR, make sure your terminal matches the
+\fBunix charset\fR\&.
.PP
-ldap_auth_dn = \fIdn\fR \fB(G)\fR
+mac charset = \fICHARSET\fR \fB(G)/(V)\fR
.RS 4
-Distinguished Name of the user for simple bind\&.
-.sp
+Specifies the Mac clients charset, e\&.g\&.
+\fIMAC_ROMAN\fR\&. 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
+\fBmac charset\fR\&. Defaults to
+\fIMAC_ROMAN\fR\&.
.RE
.PP
-ldap_auth_pw = \fIpassword\fR \fB(G)\fR
+unix charset = \fICHARSET\fR \fB(G)\fR
.RS 4
-Distinguished Name of the user for simple bind\&.
-.sp
+Specifies the servers unix charset, e\&.g\&.
+\fIISO\-8859\-15\fR
+or
+\fIEUC\-JP\fR\&. This is used to convert strings to/from the systems locale, e\&.g\&. for authentication, server messages and volume names\&. If
+\fILOCALE\fR
+is set, the systems locale is used\&. Defaults to
+\fIUTF8\fR\&.
.RE
.PP
-ldap_userbase = \fIbase dn\fR \fB(G)\fR
+vol charset = \fICHARSET\fR \fB(G)/(V)\fR
.RS 4
-DN of the user container in LDAP\&.
-.sp
+Specifies the encoding of the volumes filesystem\&. By default, it is the same as
+\fBunix charset\fR\&.
.RE
+.SS "Password Options"
.PP
-ldap_userscope = \fIscope\fR \fB(G)\fR
+passwd file = \fIpath\fR \fB(G)\fR
.RS 4
-Search scope for user search:
-\fBbase | one | sub\fR
-.sp
+Sets the path to the Randnum UAM passwd file for this server (default is :ETCDIR:/afppasswd)\&.
.RE
.PP
-ldap_groupbase = \fIbase dn\fR \fB(G)\fR
+passwd minlen = \fInumber\fR \fB(G)\fR
.RS 4
-DN of the group container in LDAP\&.
-.sp
+Sets the minimum password length, if supported by the UAM
.RE
+.SS "Network Options"
.PP
-ldap_groupscope = \fIscope\fR \fB(G)\fR
+advertise ssh = \fIBOOLEAN\fR (default: \fIno\fR) \fB(G)\fR
.RS 4
-Search scope for user search:
-\fBbase | one | sub\fR
+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
+\fBsshd\fR(8)
+on the server to let things work\&.
+.if n \{\
.sp
-.RE
-.PP
-ldap_uuuid_attr = \fIdn\fR \fB(G)\fR
+.\}
.RS 4
-Name of the LDAP attribute with the UUIDs\&.
-.sp
-Note: this is used both for users and groups\&.
-.sp
+.it 1 an-trap
+.nr an-no-space-flag 1
+.nr an-break-flag 1
+.br
+.ps +1
+\fBNote\fR
+.ps -1
+.br
+Setting this option is not recommended since globally encrypting AFP connections via SSH will increase the server\*(Aqs load significantly\&. On the other hand, Apple\*(Aqs client side implementation of this feature in MacOS X versions prior to 10\&.3\&.4 contained a security flaw\&.
+.sp .5v
.RE
-.PP
-ldap_name_attr = \fIdn\fR \fB(G)\fR
-.RS 4
-Name of the LDAP attribute with the users short name\&.
-.sp
.RE
.PP
-ldap_group_attr = \fIdn\fR \fB(G)\fR
+afp listen = \fIip address[:port] [ip address[:port] \&.\&.\&.]\fR \fB(G)\fR
.RS 4
-Name of the LDAP attribute with the groups short name\&.
-.sp
+Specifies the IP address that the server should advertise
+\fBand\fR
+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\&.
.RE
-.SS "Codepage Options"
-.PP
-With OS X Apple introduced the AFP3 protocol\&. One of the big changes was, that AFP3 uses Unicode names encoded as Decomposed UTF\-8 (UTF8\-MAC)\&. Previous AFP/OS versions used codepages like MacRoman, MacCentralEurope, etc\&.
.PP
-To be able to serve AFP3 and older clients at the same time,
-\fBafpd\fR
-needs to be able to convert between UTF\-8 and Mac codepages\&. Even OS X clients partly still rely on codepages\&. As there\'s no way,
-\fBafpd\fR
-can detect the codepage a pre AFP3 client uses, you have to specify it using the
-\fBmaccodepage\fR
-option\&. The default is MacRoman, which should be fine for most western users\&.
-.PP
-As
-\fBafpd\fR
-needs to interact with unix operating system as well, it need\'s to be able to convert from UTF8\-MAC/MacCodepage to the unix codepage\&. By default
-\fBafpd\fR
-uses the systems LOCALE, or ASCII if your system doesn\'t support locales\&. You can set the unix codepage using the
-\fBunixcodepage\fR
-option\&. If you\'re using extended characters in the configuration files for
-\fBafpd\fR, make sure your terminal matches the
-\fBunixcodepage\fR\&.
-.PP
-unixcodepage = \fICODEPAGE\fR \fB(G)\fR
+afp port = \fIport number\fR \fB(G)\fR
.RS 4
-Specifies the servers unix codepage, e\&.g\&. "ISO\-8859\-15" or "UTF8"\&. This is used to convert strings to/from the systems locale, e\&.g\&. for authenthication, server messages and volume names\&. Defaults to LOCALE if your system supports it, otherwise ASCII will be used\&.
+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
+\fBafp listen\fR
+option\&.
.RE
.PP
-maccodepage = \fICODEPAGE\fR \fB(G)\fR
+cnid listen = \fIip address[:port] [ip address[:port] \&.\&.\&.]\fR \fB(G)\fR
.RS 4
-Specifies the mac clients codepage, 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 maccharset\&. Defaults to MAC_ROMAN\&.
+Specifies the IP address that the CNID server should listen on\&. The default is
+\fBlocalhost:4700\fR\&.
.RE
-.SS "Password Options"
.PP
-passwdfile = \fIpath\fR \fB(G)\fR
+disconnect time = \fInumber\fR \fB(G)\fR
.RS 4
-Sets the path to the Randnum UAM passwd file for this server (default is :ETCDIR:/afppasswd)\&.
+Keep disconnected AFP sessions for
+\fInumber\fR
+hours before dropping them\&. Default is 24 hours\&.
.RE
.PP
-passwdminlen = \fInumber\fR \fB(G)\fR
+dsireadbuf = \fInumber\fR \fB(G)\fR
.RS 4
-Sets the minimum password length, if supported by the UAM
+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\&.
+\fINote\fR: This buffer is allocated per afpd child process, so specifying large values will eat up large amount of memory (buffer size * number of clients)\&.
.RE
-.SS "Network Options"
.PP
fqdn = \fIname:port\fR \fB(G)\fR
.RS 4
.PP
hostname = \fIname\fR \fB(G)\fR
.RS 4
-Use this instead of the result from calling hostname for dertermening which IP address to advertise, therfore the hostname is resolved to an IP which is the advertised\&. This is NOT used for listening and it is also overwritten by
+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
\fBafp listen\fR\&.
.RE
.PP
-afp listen = \fIip address[:port][,ip adress[:port], \&.\&.\&.]\fR \fB(G)\fR
+max connections = \fInumber\fR \fB(G)\fR
.RS 4
-Specifies the IP address that the server should advertise
-\fBand\fR
-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\&.
+Sets the maximum number of clients that can simultaneously connect to the server (default is 200)\&.
.RE
.PP
-cnid listen = \fIip address[:port][,ip adress[:port], \&.\&.\&.]\fR \fB(G)\fR
+server quantum = \fInumber\fR \fB(G)\fR
.RS 4
-Specifies the IP address that the CNID server should listen on\&. The default is
-\fBlocalhost:4700\fR\&.
+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
.RE
.PP
-afp port = \fIport number\fR \fB(G)\fR
+sleep time = \fInumber\fR \fB(G)\fR
.RS 4
-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
-\fBafp listen\fR
-option\&.
+Keep sleeping AFP sessions for
+\fInumber\fR
+hours before disconnecting clients in sleep mode\&. Default is 10 hours\&.
.RE
.PP
-server_quantum = \fInumber\fR \fB(G)\fR
+tcprcvbuf = \fInumber\fR \fB(G)\fR
.RS 4
-This specifies the DSI server quantum\&. The default value is 303840\&. 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\'re absolutely sure, what you\'re doing
+Try to set TCP receive buffer using setsockpt()\&. Often OSes impose restrictions on the applications ability to set this value\&.
.RE
.PP
-dsireadbuf = \fInumber\fR \fB(G)\fR
+tcpsndbuf = \fInumber\fR \fB(G)\fR
.RS 4
-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\&.
-\fINote\fR: This buffer is allocated per afpd child process, so specifying large values will eat up large amount of memory (buffer size * number of clients)\&.
+Try to set TCP send buffer using setsockpt()\&. Often OSes impose restrictions on the applications ability to set this value\&.
.RE
.PP
-tcprcvbuf = \fInumber\fR \fB(G)\fR
+use sendfile = \fIBOOLEAN\fR (default: \fIyes\fR) \fB(G)\fR
.RS 4
-Try to set TCP receive 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\&.
.RE
.PP
-tcpsndbuf = \fInumber\fR \fB(G)\fR
+zeroconf = \fIBOOLEAN\fR (default: \fIyes\fR) \fB(G)\fR
.RS 4
-Try to set TCP send buffer using setsockpt()\&. Often OSes impose restrictions on the applications ability to set this value\&.
+Whether to use automatic Zeroconf
+service registration if Avahi or mDNSResponder were compiled in\&.
.RE
.SS "Miscellaneous Options"
.PP
-basedir regex = \fIregex\fR \fB(H)\fR
+admin group = \fIgroup\fR \fB(G)\fR
.RS 4
-Regular expression which matches the parent directory of the user homes\&. In the simple case this is just a path ie
-\fBbasedir regex = /home\fR
+Allows users of a certain group to be seen as the superuser when they log in\&. This option is disabled by default\&.
.RE
.PP
-name = \fIname\fR \fB(H)\fR
+afp read locks = \fIBOOLEAN\fR (default: \fIno\fR) \fB(G)\fR
.RS 4
-AFP user home volume name\&. The default is
-\fIusers\'s home\fR\&.
+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\&.
.RE
.PP
-vol preset = \fIname\fR \fB(G)/(V)\fR
+afpstats = \fIBOOLEAN\fR (default: \fIno\fR) \fB(G)\fR
.RS 4
-Use section
-\fBname\fR
-as option preset for all volumes (when set in the global section) or for one volume (when set in that volume\'s section)\&.
+Whether to provide AFP runtime statistics (connected users, open volumes) via dbus\&.
+.RE
+.PP
+basedir regex = \fIregex\fR \fB(H)\fR
+.RS 4
+Regular expression which matches the parent directory of the user homes\&. If
+\fBbasedir regex\fR
+contains symlink, you must set the canonicalized absolute path\&. In the simple case this is just a path ie
+\fBbasedir regex = /home\fR
.RE
.PP
-admingroup = \fIgroup\fR \fB(G)\fR
+close vol = \fIBOOLEAN\fR (default: \fIno\fR) \fB(G)\fR
.RS 4
-Allows users of a certain group to be seen as the superuser when they log in\&. This option is disabled by default\&.
+Whether to close volumes possibly opened by clients when they\*(Aqre removed from the configuration and the configuration is reloaded\&.
.RE
.PP
-cnidserver = \fIipaddress[:port]\fR \fB(G)/(V)\fR
+cnid server = \fIipaddress[:port]\fR \fB(G)/(V)\fR
.RS 4
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\&.\-
.RE
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\&.
.RE
.PP
-fcelistener = \fIhost[:port]\fR \fB(G)\fR
+extmap file = \fIpath\fR \fB(G)\fR
.RS 4
-Enables sending FCE events to the specified
-\fIhost\fR, default
-\fIport\fR
-is 12250 if not specified\&. Specifying mutliple listeners is done by having this option once for each of them\&.
+Sets the path to the file which defines file extension type/creator mappings\&. (default is :ETCDIR:/extmap\&.conf)\&.
.RE
.PP
-fceevents = \fIfmod,fdel,ddel,fcre,dcre,tmsz\fR \fB(G)\fR
+guest account = \fIname\fR \fB(G)\fR
.RS 4
-Speficies which FCE events are active, default is
-\fIfmod,fdel,ddel,fcre,dcre\fR\&.
+Specifies the user that guests should use (default is "nobody")\&. The name should be quoted\&.
.RE
.PP
-fcecoalesce = \fIall|delete|create\fR \fB(G)\fR
+home name = \fIname\fR \fB(H)\fR
.RS 4
-Coalesce FCE events\&.
+AFP user home volume name\&. The default is
+\fIuser\*(Aqs home\fR\&.
.RE
.PP
-fceholdfmod = \fIseconds\fR \fB(G)\fR
+login message = \fImessage\fR \fB(G)/(V)\fR
.RS 4
-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 mutliple times for every "save"\&. Defautl: 60 seconds\&.
+Sets a message to be displayed when clients logon to the server\&. The message should be in
+\fBunix charset\fR
+and should be quoted\&. Extended characters are allowed\&.
.RE
.PP
-guestname = \fIname\fR \fB(G)\fR
+map acls = \fIBOOLEAN\fR (default: \fIyes\fR) \fB(G)\fR
.RS 4
-Specifies the user that guests should use (default is "nobody")\&. The name should be quoted\&.
+Whether to map filesystem ACLs to effective permissions\&.
.RE
.PP
-loginmesg = \fImessage\fR \fB(G)\fR
+mimic model = \fImodel\fR \fB(G)\fR
.RS 4
-Sets a message to be displayed when clients logon to the server\&. The message should be in
-\fBunixcodepage\fR
-and should be quoted\&. Extended characters are allowed\&.
+Specifies the icon model that appears on clients\&. Defaults to off\&. Examples: RackMac (same as Xserve), PowerBook, PowerMac, Macmini, iMac, MacBook, MacBookPro, MacBookAir, MacPro, AppleTV1,1, AirPort\&.
.RE
.PP
-mimicmodel = \fImodel\fR \fB(G)\fR
+signature = <text> \fB(G)\fR
.RS 4
-Specifies the icon model that appears on clients\&. Defaults to off\&. 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
+:STATEDIR:/netatalk/afp_signature\&.conf
+automatically (based on random number)\&. See also asip\-status\&.pl(1)\&.
.RE
.PP
-signature = { user:<text> | auto } \fB(G)\fR
+solaris share reservations = \fIBOOLEAN\fR (default: \fIyes\fR) \fB(G)\fR
.RS 4
-Specify a server signature\&. This option is useful while running multiple independent instances of afpd on one machine (eg\&. in clustered environments, to provide fault isolation etc\&.)\&. Default is "auto"\&. "auto" signature type allows afpd generating signature and saving it to
-:ETCDIR:/afp_signature\&.conf
-automatically (based on random number)\&. "host" signature type switches back to "auto" because it is obsoleted\&. "user" signature type allows administrator to set up a signature string manually\&. The maximum length is 16 characters\&.
+Use share reservations on Solaris\&. Solaris CIFS server uses this too, so this makes a lock coherent multi protocol server\&.
+.RE
.PP
-\fBExample.\ \&Three server definitions using 2 different server signatures\fR
-.sp
-.if n \{\
+vol dbpath = \fIpath\fR \fB(G)\fR
.RS 4
-.\}
-.nf
-first \-signature user:USERS
- second \-signature user:USERS
- third \-signature user:ADMINS
-.fi
-.if n \{\
-.RE
-.\}
-
-
-First two servers will appear as one logical AFP service to the clients \- if user logs in to first one and then connects to second one, session will be automatically redirected to the first one\&. But if client connects to first and then to third, will be asked for password twice and will see resources of both servers\&. Traditional method of signature generation causes two independent afpd instances to have the same signature and thus cause clients to be redirected automatically to server (s)he logged in first\&.
+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
+:STATEDIR:/netatalk/CNID/\&.
.RE
.PP
volnamelen = \fInumber\fR \fB(G)\fR
.RS 4
.\}
.nf
-73: limit of Mac OS X 10\&.1
- 80: limit for Mac OS X 10\&.4/10\&.5 (default)
- 255: limit of spec
+ 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
.fi
.if n \{\
.RE
.\}
.sp
-Mac OS 9 and earlier are not influenced by this, because Maccharset volume name is always limitted to 27 bytes\&.
+Mac OS 9 and earlier are not influenced by this, because Maccharset volume name is always limited to 27 bytes\&.
+.RE
+.PP
+vol preset = \fIname\fR \fB(G)/(V)\fR
+.RS 4
+Use section
+\fBname\fR
+as option preset for all volumes (when set in the [Global] section) or for one volume (when set in that volume\*(Aqs section)\&.
.RE
.SS "Logging Options"
.PP
-logfile = \fIfile\fR \fB(G)\fR
+log file = \fIlogfile\fR \fB(G)\fR
.RS 4
-If not specified Netatalk logs to syslogs daemon facilify\&. Otherwise it logs to
+If not specified Netatalk logs to syslogs daemon facility\&. Otherwise it logs to
\fBlogfile\fR\&.
.RE
.PP
-loglevel = \fItype:level,[type:level, \&.\&.\&.]\fR \fB(G)\fR
+log level = \fItype:level [type:level \&.\&.\&.]\fR \fB(G)\fR, log level = \fItype:level,[type:level, \&.\&.\&.]\fR \fB(G)\fR
.RS 4
Specify that any message of a loglevel up to the given
-\fBloglevel\fR
+\fBlog level\fR
should be logged\&.
.sp
By default afpd logs to syslog with a default logging setup equivalent to
.sp .5v
.RE
.RE
-.SS "Global Options"
+.SS "Filesystem Change Events (FCE)"
+.PP
+Netatalk includes a nifty filesystem change event mechanism where afpd processes notify interested listeners about certain filesystem event by UDP network datagrams\&.
+.PP
+fce listener = \fIhost[:port]\fR \fB(G)\fR
+.RS 4
+Enables sending FCE events to the specified
+\fIhost\fR, default
+\fIport\fR
+is 12250 if not specified\&. Specifying multiple listeners is done by having this option once for each of them\&.
+.RE
+.PP
+fce events = \fIfmod,fdel,ddel,fcre,dcre,tmsz\fR \fB(G)\fR
+.RS 4
+Specifies which FCE events are active, default is
+\fIfmod,fdel,ddel,fcre,dcre\fR\&.
+.RE
.PP
-options =
-\fIoption,[option,\&.\&.\&.]\fR
-\fB(G)\fR
+fce coalesce = \fIall|delete|create\fR \fB(G)\fR
+.RS 4
+Coalesce FCE events\&.
+.RE
.PP
-options =
-\fIoption [option \&.\&.\&.]\fR
-\fB(G)\fR
+fce holdfmod = \fIseconds\fR \fB(G)\fR
+.RS 4
+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\&.
+.RE
+.SS "Debug Parameters"
.PP
-This allows multiple options to be specified in a comma or space delimited format\&. The available options are:
+These options are useful for debugging only\&.
.PP
-[no]savepassword \fB(G)\fR
+tickleval = \fInumber\fR \fB(G)\fR
.RS 4
-Enables or disables the ability of clients to save passwords locally
+Sets the tickle timeout interval (in seconds)\&. Defaults to 30\&.
.RE
.PP
-[no]setpassword \fB(G)\fR
+timeout = \fInumber\fR \fB(G)\fR
.RS 4
-Enables or disables the ability of clients to change their passwords via chooser or the "connect to server" dialog
+Specify the number of tickles to send before timing out a connection\&. The default is 4, therefore a connection will timeout after 2 minutes\&.
.RE
.PP
-advertise_ssh \fB(G)\fR
+client polling = \fIBOOLEAN\fR (default: \fIno\fR) \fB(G)\fR
.RS 4
-Allows 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\'s answers to client\'s FPGetSrvrInfo requests contain an additional entry\&. It depends on both client\'s settings and a correctly configured and running
-\fBsshd\fR(8)
-on the server to let things work\&.
-.if n \{\
+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\&.
+\fINote\fR: Depending on the number of simultaneously connected clients and the network\*(Aqs speed, this can lead to a significant higher load on your network!
.sp
-.\}
+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\&.
+.RE
+.SS "Options for ACL handling"
+.PP
+For a basic mode of operation there\*(Aqs nothing to configure\&. afpd reads ACLs on the fly, calculating effective permissions and returning the calculated permissions via the so called UARights permission bits\&. On a Mac the Finder uses these bits to adjust permission in Finder windows\&. For example folder whos UNIX mode would only result in in read\-only permissions for a user will not be displayed with a read\-only icon and the user will be able to write to the folder given the folder has an ACL giving the user write access\&.
+.PP
+However, neither in Finder "Get Info" windows nor in Terminal will you be able to see the ACLs, that\*(Aqs a result of how ACLs in OS X are designed\&. If you want to be able to display ACLs on the client, things get more involved as you must then setup both client and server to be part on a authentication domain (directory service, eg LDAP, OpenDirectory)\&. The reason is, that in OS X ACLs are bound to UUIDs, not just uid\*(Aqs or gid\*(Aqs\&. Therefor afpd must be able to map every filesystem uid and gid to a UUID so that it can return the server side ACLs which are bound to UNIX uid and gid mapped to OS X UUIDs\&. Get it? Read on\&.
+.PP
+Netatalk can query a directory server using LDAP queries\&. Either the directory server already provides an UUID attribute for user and groups (Active Directory, Open Directory) or you reuse an unused attribute (or add a new one) to you directory server (eg OpenLDAP)\&.
+.PP
+The following LDAP options must be configured for Netatalk:
+.PP
+ldap auth method = \fInone|simple|sasl\fR \fB(G)\fR
.RS 4
-.it 1 an-trap
-.nr an-no-space-flag 1
-.nr an-break-flag 1
-.br
-.ps +1
-\fBNote\fR
-.ps -1
-.br
-Setting this option is not recommended since globally encrypting AFP connections via SSH will increase the server\'s load significantly\&. On the other hand, Apple\'s client side implementation of this feature in MacOS X versions prior to 10\&.3\&.4 contained a security flaw\&.
-.sp .5v
+Authentication method:
+\fBnone | simple | sasl\fR
+.PP
+none
+.RS 4
+anonymous LDAP bind
+.RE
+.PP
+simple
+.RS 4
+simple LDAP bind
+.RE
+.PP
+sasl
+.RS 4
+SASL\&. Not yet supported !
.RE
.RE
.PP
-nozeroconf \fB(G)\fR
+ldap auth dn = \fIdn\fR \fB(G)\fR
.RS 4
-Disable automatic Zeroconf
-service registration if support was compiled in\&.
+Distinguished Name of the user for simple bind\&.
.RE
.PP
-client_polling \fB(G)\fR
+ldap auth pw = \fIpassword\fR \fB(G)\fR
.RS 4
-With this switch enabled, afpd won\'t 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\&.
-\fINote\fR: Depending on the number of simultaneously connected clients and the network\'s speed, this can lead to a significant higher load on your network!
-.if n \{\
+Distinguished Name of the user for simple bind\&.
+.RE
+.PP
+ldap server = \fIhost\fR \fB(G)\fR
+.RS 4
+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\&.
.sp
-.\}
+You can use
+\fBafpldaptest\fR(1)
+to syntactically check your config\&.
+.RE
+.PP
+ldap userbase = \fIbase dn\fR \fB(G)\fR
.RS 4
-.it 1 an-trap
-.nr an-no-space-flag 1
-.nr an-break-flag 1
-.br
-.ps +1
-\fBNote\fR
-.ps -1
-.br
-Do not use this option any longer as Netatalk 2\&.x correctly supports server notifications, allowing connected clients to update folder listings in case another client changed the contents\&.
-.sp .5v
+DN of the user container in LDAP\&.
.RE
+.PP
+ldap userscope = \fIscope\fR \fB(G)\fR
+.RS 4
+Search scope for user search:
+\fBbase | one | sub\fR
.RE
.PP
-[no]icon \fB(G)\fR
+ldap groupbase = \fIbase dn\fR \fB(G)\fR
.RS 4
-[Don\'t] Use the platform\-specific icon\&. Recent Mac OS don\'t display it any longer\&.
+DN of the group container in LDAP\&.
.RE
.PP
-keepsessions \fB(G)\fR
+ldap groupscope = \fIscope\fR \fB(G)\fR
.RS 4
-Enable "Continuous AFP Service"\&. This means the ability to stop the master afpd process with a SIGQUIT signal, possibly install an afpd update and start the afpd process\&. Existing AFP sessions afpd processes will remain unaffected\&. Technically they will be notified of the master afpd shutdown, sleep 15\-20 seconds and then try to reconnect their IPC channel to the master afpd process\&. If this reconnect fails, the sessions are in an undefined state\&. Therefor it\'s absolutely critical to restart the master process in time!
+Search scope for user search:
+\fBbase | one | sub\fR
.RE
.PP
-sleep \fInumber\fR \fB(G)\fR
+ldap uuid attr = \fIdn\fR \fB(G)\fR
.RS 4
-AFP 3\&.x waits
-\fInumber\fR
-hours before disconnecting clients in sleep mode\&. Default is 10 hours\&.
+Name of the LDAP attribute with the UUIDs\&.
+.sp
+Note: this is used both for users and groups\&.
.RE
.PP
-noacl2maccess \fB(G)\fR
+ldap name attr = \fIdn\fR \fB(G)\fR
.RS 4
-Don\'t map filesystem ACLs to effective permissions\&.
+Name of the LDAP attribute with the users short name\&.
.RE
-.SS "Debug Parameters"
.PP
-These options are useful for debugging only\&.
+ldap uuid string = \fISTRING\fR \fB(G)\fR
+.RS 4
+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\&.
+.sp
+Default: xxxxxxxx\-xxxx\-xxxx\-xxxx\-xxxxxxxxxxxx
+.RE
.PP
-tickleval = \fInumber\fR \fB(G)\fR
+ldap uuid encoding = \fIstring | ms\-guid (default: string)\fR \fB(G)\fR
.RS 4
-Sets the tickle timeout interval (in seconds)\&. Defaults to 30\&.
+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\&.
+.PP
+string
+.RS 4
+UUID is a string, use with eg OpenDirectory\&.
.RE
.PP
-timeout = \fInumber\fR \fB(G)\fR
+ms\-guid
.RS 4
-Specify the number of tickles to send before timing out a connection\&. The default is 4, therefore a connection will timeout after 2 minutes\&.
+Binary objectGUID from Active Directory
+.RE
+.RE
+.PP
+ldap group attr = \fIdn\fR \fB(G)\fR
+.RS 4
+Name of the LDAP attribute with the groups short name\&.
.RE
.SH "EXPLANATION OF VOLUME PARAMETERS"
.SS "Parameters"
.PP
-The section name defines the volume name which is the name that appears in the Chooser ot the "connect to server" dialog on Macintoshes to represent the appropriate share\&. No two volumes may have the same name\&. The volume name cannot contain the
-\':\'
-character\&. The volume name is mangled if it is very long\&. Mac codepage volume name is limited to 27 characters\&. UTF8\-MAC volume name is limited to \-volnamelen parameter in afpd\&.conf
+The section name defines the volume name which is the name that appears in the Chooser or the "connect to server" dialog on Macintoshes to represent the appropriate share\&. No two volumes may have the same name\&. The volume name cannot contain the
+\*(Aq:\*(Aq
+character\&. The volume name is mangled if it is very long\&. Mac charset volume name is limited to 27 characters\&. UTF8\-MAC volume name is limited to volnamelen parameter\&.
.PP
path = \fIPATH\fR \fB(V)\fR
.RS 4
The path name must be a fully qualified path name, or a path name using either the ~ shell shorthand or any of the substitution variables, which are listed below\&.
.sp
The volume name is the name that appears in the Chooser ot the "connect to server" dialog on Macintoshes to represent the appropriate share\&. If volumename is unspecified, the last component of pathname is used\&. No two volumes may have the same name\&. If there are spaces in the name, it should be in quotes (i\&.e\&. "File Share")\&. The volume name cannot contain the
-\':\'
-character\&. The volume name is mangled if it is very long\&. Mac codepage volume name is limited to 27 characters\&. UTF8\-MAC volume name is limited to \-volnamelen parameter in afpd\&.conf
+\*(Aq:\*(Aq
+character\&. The volume name is mangled if it is very long\&. Mac charset volume name is limited to 27 characters\&. UTF8\-MAC volume name is limited to volnamelen parameter\&.
.RE
.PP
-adouble = \fIea|v2\fR \fB(V)\fR
+appledouble = \fIea|v2\fR \fB(V)\fR
.RS 4
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
\fBea\fR\&.
.RE
.PP
-volsizelimit = \fIsize in MiB\fR \fB(V)\fR
+vol size limit = \fIsize in MiB\fR \fB(V)\fR
.RS 4
-Useful for TimeMachine: limits the reported volume size, thus preventing TM from using the whole real disk space for backup\&. Example: "volsizelimit:1000" would limit the reported disk space to 1 GB\&.
+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\&.
\fBIMPORTANT: \fR
-This is an approximated calculation taking into accout the contents of TM 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\&.
+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\&.
.RE
.PP
-allow = \fIusers/groups\fR \fB(V)\fR
+valid users = \fIuser @group\fR \fB(V)\fR
.RS 4
-The allow option allows the users and groups that access a share to be specified\&. Users and groups are specified, delimited by commas\&. Groups are designated by a @ prefix\&. Example: allow:user1,user2,@group
+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:
+.sp
+.if n \{\
+.RS 4
+.\}
+.nf
+valid users = user "user 2" @group \(lq@group 2"
+.fi
+.if n \{\
+.RE
+.\}
.RE
.PP
-deny = \fIusers/groups\fR \fB(V)\fR
+invalid users = \fIusers/groups\fR \fB(V)\fR
.RS 4
-The deny option specifies users and groups who are not allowed access to the share\&. It follows the same format as the allow option\&.
+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\&.
.RE
.PP
-allowed_hosts = \fIIP host address/IP netmask bits[, \&.\&.\&. ]\fR \fB(V)\fR
+hosts allow = \fIIP host address/IP netmask bits [ \&.\&.\&. ]\fR \fB(V)\fR
.RS 4
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\&.
.sp
-Example: allowed_hosts:10\&.1\&.0\&.0/16,10\&.2\&.1\&.100,2001:0db8:1234::/48
+Example: hosts allow = 10\&.1\&.0\&.0/16 10\&.2\&.1\&.100 2001:0db8:1234::/48
.RE
.PP
-denied_hosts = \fIIP host address/IP netmask bits[, \&.\&.\&.]\fR \fB(V)\fR
+hosts deny = \fIIP host address/IP netmask bits [ \&.\&.\&. ]\fR \fB(V)\fR
.RS 4
Listed hosts and nets are rejected, all others are allowed\&.
.sp
-Example: denied_hosts: 192\&.168\&.100/24,10\&.1\&.1\&.1,2001:db8::1428:57ab
+Example: hosts deny = 192\&.168\&.100/24 10\&.1\&.1\&.1 2001:db8::1428:57ab
.RE
.PP
-cnidscheme = \fIbackend\fR \fB(V)\fR
+cnid scheme = \fIbackend\fR \fB(V)\fR
.RS 4
set the CNID backend to be used for the volume, default is [:DEFAULT_CNID_SCHEME:] available schemes: [:COMPILED_BACKENDS:]
.RE
.PP
-dbpath = \fIpath\fR \fB(V)\fR
-.RS 4
-Sets the database information to be stored in path\&. You have to specifiy a writable location, even if the volume is read only\&.
-.RE
-.PP
-cnidserver = \fIhost[:port]\fR \fB(V)\fR
-.RS 4
-Query this servername or IP address (default:\fIlocalhost\fR) and port (default:
-\fI4700\fR) for CNIDs\&. Only used with CNID backend "\fIdbd\fR"\&. This option here overrides any setting from
-afpd\&.conf:\fBcnidserver\fR\&.
-.RE
-.PP
-ea = \fInone|auto|sys|ad\fR
+ea = \fInone|auto|sys|ad\fR \fB(V)\fR
.RS 4
Specify how Extended Attributes
are stored\&.
Try
\fBsys\fR
(by setting an EA on the shared directory itself), fallback to
-\fBad\fR\&. Requires writeable volume for perfoming test\&.
-\fBoptions:ro\fR
-overwrites
+\fBad\fR\&. Requires writable volume for performing test\&. "\fBread only = yes\fR" overwrites
\fBauto\fR
with
-\fBnone\fR\&. Use explicit
-\fBea:sys|ad\fR
-for read\-only volumes where appropiate\&.
+\fBnone\fR\&. Use explicit "\fBea = sys|ad\fR" for read\-only volumes where appropriate\&.
.RE
.PP
sys
.RE
.RE
.PP
-maccharset = \fIcharset\fR \fB(V)\fR
+mac charset = \fICHARSET\fR \fB(V)\fR
.RS 4
-specifies the mac client codepage for this Volume, e\&.g\&. "MAC_ROMAN", "MAC_CYRILLIC"\&. If not specified the setting from
-afpd\&.conf
-is inherited\&. This setting is only required if you need volumes, where the mac codepage differs from the one globally set in
-afpd\&.conf\&.
+specifies the Mac client charset for this Volume, e\&.g\&.
+\fIMAC_ROMAN\fR,
+\fIMAC_CYRILLIC\fR\&. 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\&.
.RE
.PP
-casefold = \fBoption\fR
+casefold = \fBoption\fR \fB(V)\fR
.RS 4
The casefold option handles, if the case of filenames should be changed\&. The available options are:
.sp
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)\&.
.RE
.PP
-perm|fperm|dperm:\fImode\fR \fB(V)\fR
+file perm = \fImode\fR \fB(V)\fR, directory perm = \fImode\fR \fB(V)\fR
.RS 4
Add(or) with the client requested permissions:
-\fBperm\fR
-affects files and directories,
-\fBfperm\fR
+\fBfile perm\fR
is for files only,
-\fBdperm\fR
-is for directories only\&. Use with
-\fBoptions:upriv\fR\&.
+\fBdirectory perm\fR
+is for directories only\&. Don\*(Aqt use with "\fBunix priv = no\fR"\&.
.PP
\fBExample.\ \&Volume for a collaborative workgroup\fR
.sp
.RS 4
.\}
.nf
-/path/to/volume "Workgroup" options:upriv dperm:0770 fperm:0660
+file perm = 0660 directory perm =
+ 0770
.fi
.if n \{\
.RE
.\}
+
.RE
.PP
umask = \fImode\fR \fB(V)\fR
.RS 4
-set perm mask\&. Use with
-\fBoptions:upriv\fR\&.
+set perm mask\&. Don\*(Aqt use with "\fBunix priv = no\fR"\&.
.RE
.PP
preexec = \fIcommand\fR \fB(V)\fR
command to be run when the volume is closed, ignored for user defined volumes
.RE
.PP
-root_preexec = \fIcommand\fR \fB(V)\fR
+root preexec = \fIcommand\fR \fB(V)\fR
.RS 4
command to be run as root when the volume is mounted, ignored for user defined volumes
.RE
.PP
-root_postexec = \fIcommand\fR \fB(V)\fR
+root postexec = \fIcommand\fR \fB(V)\fR
.RS 4
command to be run as root when the volume is closed, ignored for user defined volumes
.RE
Allows certain users and groups to have read/write access to a share\&. This follows the allow option format\&.
.RE
.PP
-veto = \fIvetoed names\fR \fB(V)\fR
+veto files = \fIvetoed names\fR \fB(V)\fR
.RS 4
-hide files and directories,where the path matches one of the \'/\' delimited vetoed names\&. The veto string must always be terminated with a \'/\', eg\&. "veto1/", "veto1/veto2/"\&.
-.RE
-.PP
-volcharset = \fIcharset\fR \fB(V)\fR
-.RS 4
-specifies the volume codepage, e\&.g\&. "UTF8", "UTF8\-MAC", "ISO\-8859\-15"\&. Defaults to "UTF8"\&.
+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/"\&.
.RE
.SS "Volume options"
.PP
-vol options =
-\fIoption,[option,\&.\&.\&.]\fR
-\fB(V)\fR
+Boolean volume options\&.
.PP
-vol options =
-\fIoption [option \&.\&.\&.]\fR
-\fB(V)\fR
-.PP
-This allows multiple options to be specified in a comma or space delimited format\&. The available options are:
+acls = \fIBOOLEAN\fR (default: \fIyes\fR) \fB(V)\fR
+.RS 4
+Whether to flag volumes as supporting ACLs\&. If ACL support is compiled in, this is yes by default\&.
+.RE
.PP
-searchdb \fB(V)\fR
+cnid dev = \fIBOOLEAN\fR (default: \fIyes\fR) \fB(V)\fR
.RS 4
-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 use the device number in the CNID backends\&. Helps when the device number is not constant across a reboot, eg cluster, \&.\&.\&.
.RE
.PP
-tm \fB(V)\fR
+convert appledouble = \fIBOOLEAN\fR (default: \fIyes\fR) \fB(V)\fR
.RS 4
-Enable Time Machine suport for this volume\&.
+Whether automatic conversion from
+\fBappledouble = v2\fR
+to
+\fBappledouble = ea\fR
+is performed when accessing filesystems from clients\&. This is generally useful, but costs some performance\&. It\*(Aqs recommendable to run
+\fBdbd\fR
+on volumes and do the conversion with that\&. Then this option can be set to no\&.
.RE
.PP
-invisibledots \fB(V)\fR
+follow symlinks = \fIBOOLEAN\fR (default: \fIno\fR) \fB(V)\fR
.RS 4
-Use with
-\fBusedots\fR: make dot files invisible\&.
+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"\&.
.RE
.PP
-nonetids \fB(V)\fR
+invisible dots = \fIBOOLEAN\fR (default: \fIno\fR) \fB(V)\fR
.RS 4
-Try to force ACL unawareness on the client\&.
+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\&.
.RE
.PP
-preexec_close \fB(V)\fR
+network ids = \fIBOOLEAN\fR (default: \fIyes\fR) \fB(V)\fR
.RS 4
-a non\-zero return code from preexec close the volume being immediately, preventing clients to mount/see the volume in question\&.
+Whether the server support network ids\&. Setting this to
+\fIno\fR
+will result in the client not using ACL AFP functions\&.
.RE
.PP
-ro \fB(V)\fR
+preexec close = \fIBOOLEAN\fR (default: \fIno\fR) \fB(V)\fR
.RS 4
-Specifies the share as being read only for all users\&. The \&.AppleDB directory has to be writeable, you can use the
-\fB\-dbpath\fR
-option to relocate it\&. Overwrites
-\fBea:auto\fR
-with
-\fBea:none\fR
+A non\-zero return code from preexec close the volume being immediately, preventing clients to mount/see the volume in question\&.
.RE
.PP
-root_preexec_close \fB(V)\fR
+read only = \fIBOOLEAN\fR (default: \fIno\fR) \fB(V)\fR
.RS 4
-a non\-zero return code from root_preexec closes the volume immediately, preventing clients to mount/see the volume in question\&.
+Specifies the share as being read only for all users\&. Overwrites
+\fBea = auto\fR
+with
+\fBea = none\fR
.RE
.PP
-upriv \fB(V)\fR
+root preexec close= \fIBOOLEAN\fR (default: \fIno\fR) \fB(V)\fR
.RS 4
-use AFP3 unix privileges\&. This should be set for OS X clients\&. Starting with Netatalk 2\&.1 it\'s part of the default config :DEFAULT: line\&. See also:
-\fBperm|fperm|dperm\fR\&.
+A non\-zero return code from root_preexec closes the volume immediately, preventing clients to mount/see the volume in question\&.
.RE
.PP
-usedots \fB(V)\fR
+search db = \fIBOOLEAN\fR (default: \fIno\fR) \fB(V)\fR
.RS 4
-Don\'t do :hex translation for dot files\&. note: when this option gets set, certain file names become illegal\&. These are \&.Parent and anything that starts with \&.Apple\&. See also
-\fBinvisibledots\fR\&.
+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\&.
.RE
.PP
-nodev \fB(V)\fR
+stat vol = \fIBOOLEAN\fR (default: \fIyes\fR) \fB(V)\fR
.RS 4
-always use 0 for device number, helps when the device number is not constant across a reboot, cluster, \&.\&.\&.
+Whether to stat volume path when enumerating volumes list, useful for automounting or volumes created by a preexec script\&.
.RE
.PP
-nohex \fB(V)\fR
+time machine = \fIBOOLEAN\fR (default: \fIno\fR) \fB(V)\fR
.RS 4
-Disables :hex translations for anything except dot files\&. This option makes the
-\'/\' character illegal\&.
+Whether to enable Time Machine support for this volume\&.
.RE
.PP
-nostat \fB(V)\fR
+unix priv = \fIBOOLEAN\fR (default: \fIyes\fR) \fB(V)\fR
.RS 4
-don\'t stat volume path when enumerating volumes list, useful for automounting or volumes created by a preexec script\&.
+Whether to use AFP3 UNIX privileges\&. This should be set for OS X clients\&. See also:
+\fBfile perm\fR,
+\fBdirectory perm\fR
+and
+\fBumask\fR\&.
.RE
.SH "CNID BACKENDS"
.PP
-The AFP protocol mostly refers to files and directories by ID and not by name\&. Netatalk needs a way to store these ID\'s in a persistent way, to achieve this several different CNID backends are available\&. The CNID Databases are by default located in the
-\&.AppleDB
-folder in the volume root\&.
+The AFP protocol mostly refers to files and directories by ID and not by name\&. Netatalk needs a way to store these ID\*(Aqs in a persistent way, to achieve this several different CNID backends are available\&. The CNID Databases are by default located in the
+:STATEDIR:/netatalk/CNID/(volumename)/\&.AppleDB/
+directory\&.
.PP
cdb
.RS 4
-"Concurrent database", backend is based on Sleepycat\'s Berkely DB\&. With this backend several
+"Concurrent database", backend is based on Oracle Berkley DB\&. With this backend several
\fBafpd\fR
-deamons access the CNID database directly\&. Berkeley DB locking is used to synchronize access, if more than one
+daemons access the CNID database directly\&. Berkeley DB locking is used to synchronize access, if more than one
\fBafpd\fR
process is active for a volume\&. The drawback is, that the crash of a single
\fBafpd\fR
.PP
last
.RS 4
-This backend is an exception, in terms of ID persistency\&. ID\'s are only valid for the current session\&. This is basically what
+This backend is an exception, in terms of ID persistency\&. ID\*(Aqs are only valid for the current session\&. This is basically what
\fBafpd\fR
-did in the 1\&.5 (and 1\&.6) versions\&. This backend is still available, as it is useful for e\&.g\&. sharing cdroms\&.
+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
+\fIread only mode\fR
+automatically\&.
.sp
\fBWarning\fR: It is
\fINOT\fR
.PP
Even though
\fB\&./configure \-\-help\fR
-might show that there are other CNID backends available, be warned those are likely broken or mainly used for testing\&. Don\'t use them unless you know what you\'re doing, they may be removed without further notice from future versions\&.
+might show that there are other CNID backends available, be warned those are likely broken or mainly used for testing\&. Don\*(Aqt use them unless you know what you\*(Aqre doing, they may be removed without further notice from future versions\&.
.SH "CHARSET OPTIONS"
.PP
With OS X Apple introduced the AFP3 protocol\&. One of the most important changes was that AFP3 uses unicode names encoded as UTF\-8 decomposed\&. Previous AFP/OS versions used codepages, like MacRoman, MacCentralEurope, etc\&.
.PP
\fBafpd\fR
-needs a way to preserve extended macintosh characters, or characters illegal in unix filenames, when saving files on a unix filesystem\&. Earlier versions used the the so called CAP encoding\&. An extended character (>0x7F) would be converted to a :xx sequence, e\&.g\&. the Apple Logo (MacRoman: 0XF0) was saved as
-:f0\&. Some special characters will be converted as to :xx notation as well\&. \'/\' will be encoded to
+needs a way to preserve extended Macintosh characters, or characters illegal in unix filenames, when saving files on a unix filesystem\&. Earlier versions used the the so called CAP encoding\&. An extended character (>0x7F) would be converted to a :xx sequence, e\&.g\&. the Apple Logo (MacRoman: 0xF0) was saved as
+:f0\&. Some special characters will be converted as to :xx notation as well\&. \*(Aq/\*(Aq will be encoded to
:2f, if
\fBusedots\fR
-is not specified, a leading dot \'\&.\' will be encoded as
+is not specified, a leading dot \*(Aq\&.\*(Aq will be encoded as
:2e\&.
.PP
-This version now uses UTF\-8 as the default encoding for names\&. Special characters, like \'/\' and a leading \'\&.\' will still be CAP style encoded \&.
+This version now uses UTF\-8 as the default encoding for names\&. \*(Aq/\*(Aq will be converted to \*(Aq:\*(Aq\&.
.PP
The
-\fBvolcharset\fR
-option will allow you to select another volume encoding\&. E\&.g\&. for western users another useful setting could be volcharset ISO\-8859\-15\&.
-\fBapfd\fR
+\fBvol charset\fR
+option will allow you to select another volume encoding\&. E\&.g\&. for western users another useful setting could be vol charset ISO\-8859\-15\&.
+\fBafpd\fR
will accept any
\fBiconv\fR(1)
-provided charset\&. If a character cannot be converted from the mac codepage to the selected volcharset, afpd will save it as a CAP encoded character\&. For AFP3 clients,
+provided charset\&. If a character cannot be converted from the
+\fBmac charset\fR
+to the selected
+\fBvol charset\fR, afpd will save it as a CAP encoded character\&. For AFP3 clients,
\fBafpd\fR
will convert the UTF\-8
character to
-\fBmaccharset\fR
-first\&. If this conversion fails, you\'ll receive a \-50 error on the mac\&.
+\fBmac charset\fR
+first\&. If this conversion fails, you\*(Aqll receive a \-50 error on the mac\&.
.PP
\fINote\fR: Whenever you can, please stick with the default UTF\-8 volume format\&.
.SH "SEE ALSO"
\fBafpd\fR(8),
\fBafppasswd\fR(5),
\fBafp_signature.conf\fR(5),
+\fBextmap.conf\fR(5),
\fBcnid_metad\fR(8)
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