Changing AFP Settings

You can change AFP service settings using the serveradmin tool.

To change a setting:

$ sudo serveradmin settings afp:setting = value

Parameter

Description

setting

An AFP service setting. To see a list of available settings, enter

 

$ sudo serveradmin settings afp

 

or see “List of AFP Settings” on page 137.

 

 

value

An appropriate value for the setting. Enclose text strings in double

 

quotes (for example: "text string").

 

 

To change several settings:

$ sudo serveradmin settings

afp:setting = value

afp:setting = value

afp:setting = value

[...]

Control-D

List of AFP Settings

The following table lists AFP settings as they appear using serveradmin.

Parameter (afp:)

Description

activityLog

Turn activity logging on or off.

 

Default = no

 

 

activityLogPath

Location of the activity log file.

 

Default = /Library/Logs/AppleFileService/

 

AppleFileServiceAccess.log

 

 

activityLogSize

Rollover size (in kilobytes) for the activity log. Used only if

 

activityLogTime isn’t specified.

 

Default = 1000

 

 

activityLogTime

Rollover time (in days) for the activity log.

 

Default = 7

 

 

admin31GetsSp

Set to yes to force administrator users on Mac OS X to see share

 

points instead of all volumes.

 

Default = yes

 

 

adminGetsSp

Set to yes to force administrator users on Mac OS 9 to see share

 

points instead of all volumes.

 

Default = no

 

 

afpServerEncoding

Encoding used with Mac OS 9 clients.

 

Default = 0

 

 

afpTCPPort

TCP port used by AFP on server.

 

Default = 548

 

 

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