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.\" Date: 06 Dez 2012
.\" Manual: Netatalk 3.0
.\" Source: Netatalk 3.0
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.TH "AFP\&.CONF" "5" "06 Dez 2012" "Netatalk 3.0" "Netatalk 3.0"
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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
\fBhome name\fR
can be used to change the AFP volume name which
-\fI$u\'s home\fR
+\fI$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
.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
.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 charsets\&. Even OS X clients partly still rely on the mac charset\&. As there\'s no way,
+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
.PP
As
\fBafpd\fR
-needs to interact with UNIX operating system as well, it need\'s to be able to convert from UTF8\-MAC / Mac charset to the UNIX charset\&. By default
+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\'re using extended characters in the configuration files for
+option\&. If you\*(Aqre using extended characters in the configuration files for
\fBafpd\fR, make sure your terminal matches the
\fBunix charset\fR\&.
.PP
.PP
advertise ssh = \fIBOOLEAN\fR (default: \fIno\fR) \fB(G)\fR
.RS 4
-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\'s answers to client\'s FPGetSrvrInfo requests contain an additional entry\&. It depends on both client\'s settings and a correctly configured and running
+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 \{\
\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\&.
+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
.RE
.PP
server quantum = \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
+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\*(Aqre absolutely sure, what you\*(Aqre doing
.RE
.PP
sleep time = \fInumber\fR \fB(G)\fR
.PP
afp read locks = \fIBOOLEAN\fR (default: \fIno\fR) \fB(G)\fR
.RS 4
-Whether to apply locks to the byte region read in FPRead calls\&. The AFP spec mandates this, but it\'s not really in line with UNIX semantics and is a performance hug\&.
+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
basedir regex = \fIregex\fR \fB(H)\fR
.PP
close vol = \fIBOOLEAN\fR (default: \fIno\fR) \fB(G)\fR
.RS 4
-Whether to close volumes possibly opened by clients when they\'re removed from the configuration and the configuration is reloaded\&.
+Whether to close volumes possibly opened by clients when they\*(Aqre removed from the configuration and the configuration is reloaded\&.
.RE
.PP
cnid server = \fIipaddress[:port]\fR \fB(G)/(V)\fR
home name = \fIname\fR \fB(H)\fR
.RS 4
AFP user home volume name\&. The default is
-\fIusers\'s home\fR\&.
+\fIusers\*(Aqs home\fR\&.
.RE
.PP
keep sessions = \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)\&.
+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
.PP
client polling = \fIBOOLEAN\fR (default: \fIno\fR) \fB(G)\fR
.RS 4
-With this option 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!
+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\'s 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\&.
+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\'s 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 involed 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\'s or gid\'s\&. 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\&.
+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 involed 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
.SS "Parameters"
.PP
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
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
-\':\'
+\*(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
\fBfile perm\fR
is for files only,
\fBdirectory perm\fR
-is for directories only\&. Don\'t use with "\fBunix priv = no\fR"\&.
+is for directories only\&. Don\*(Aqt use with "\fBunix priv = no\fR"\&.
.PP
\fBExample.\ \&Volume for a collaborative workgroup\fR
.sp
.PP
umask = \fImode\fR \fB(V)\fR
.RS 4
-set perm mask\&. Don\'t use with "\fBunix priv = no\fR"\&.
+set perm mask\&. Don\*(Aqt use with "\fBunix priv = no\fR"\&.
.RE
.PP
preexec = \fIcommand\fR \fB(V)\fR
.PP
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/"\&.
+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
\fBappledouble = v2\fR
to
\fBappledouble = ea\fR
-is performed when accessing filesystems from clients\&. This is generally useful, but costs some performance\&. It\'s recommdable to run
+is performed when accessing filesystems from clients\&. This is generally useful, but costs some performance\&. It\*(Aqs recommdable to run
\fBdbd\fR
on volumes and do the conversion with that\&. Then this option can be set to no\&.
.RE
.PP
+follow symlinks = \fIBOOLEAN\fR (default: \fIno\fR) \fB(V)\fR
+.RS 4
+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
invisible dots = \fIBOOLEAN\fR (default: \fIno\fR) \fB(V)\fR
.RS 4
make dot files invisible\&.
.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
+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
.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\&. Starting with Netatalk 3\&.0, it becomes the
\fIread only mode\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
+: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\&. \'/\' will be converted to \':\'\&.
+This version now uses UTF\-8 as the default encoding for names\&. \*(Aq/\*(Aq will be converted to \*(Aq:\*(Aq\&.
.PP
The
\fBvol charset\fR
will convert the UTF\-8
character to
\fBmac charset\fR
-first\&. If this conversion fails, you\'ll receive a \-50 error on the mac\&.
+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"
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