How to connect via afp?

I want to get files from Apple machine on my ubuntu (installed in virtual box) is there any process to do that?

normally, I want to do:

afp://myapplecomputer

if I try to open with file browser(on Location), it says

nautilus cannot handle "afp" locations

Solution 1:

I simply did

apt-get install afpfs-ng

Then I was able to mount AFP shares via the CLI as

mount_afp afp://user:[email protected]/sharename /media/AFP

Works beautifully!

Solution 2:

OS X responds to both AFP and SMB by default. If you can't use SMB for some reason, sudo apt-get install netatalk. It doesn't look like netatalk has any bindings for either Gnome-VFS or Nautilus, though, so you'll have to work from a command line.

Solution 3:

Install afpfs-ng, I installed version 0.8.1 from source using the following directions (I found some old instructions here, but there is a typo so I have adjusted it to match the INSTALL instruction that came with the source files.)

Install the dependencies

sudo apt-get install lbgcrypt-dev libgmap-dev readline-dev libfuse-dev

Unzip the tar.bz2 file, cd into the resulting folder, build and install

tar -xfz afpfs-ng-0.8.1.tar.bz2
cd afpfs-ng-0.8.1
./configure
make
sudo make install
sudo ldconfig

It appears that they actually have a .deb file too, see here, but I didn't notice it until I started typing this response.

After installing you can then mount an afp share from the command line, its not quite as nice as just putting afp://share into nautilus, but certainly better than nothing. Mount using

afp_client mount -u <user_name> -p <password> <server>:<volume> <mountpoint>

where <mountpoint> is a folder that the current user has read and write permissions. If you use - for password you will be asked for the password interactively, like when you use sudo. I highly recommend this, otherwise your password will be displayed on your screen in plain text. After all of that, the mount should appear in your nautilus side bar.

When you are done and wish to unmount the share, you can not use the eject button that is displayed in nautilus. Instead use the following command

afp_client unmount <mountpoint>

If you like using the command line, then there is also the command afpcmd that behaves like a command line ftp client.