How to Install Just AppleFileServer

Question

OK, who can tell me how to install just AppleFileServer 3.1.4 (I've got the pkg extracted from 10.4.8) into System/Library/Core Services?
It is said that using 3.1.4 is the workaround for the networking #@@$%& that 10.4.9's update created.
I can't just drag and drop because I don't have the proper permissions when logged in as codonnell -- do I have to login as Admin or do something else?

Answer 1

Ok lets just start from scratch...
You said you back up the the original app so first of all lets restore that. Open up Teminal and at the prompt (which ill denote as $ in examples) issue the following commands:
<pre style="padding: 5px; border: 1px dotted #f00; background-color: #000; color: #ccc; overflow: auto;">$ sudo rm /System/Library/CoreServices/AppleFileServer.app
$ sudo cp /System/Library/CoreServices/AppleFileServer.app.O /System/Library/CoreServices/AppleFileServer.app</pre>
Now go to System Preferences and stop/start Personal File Sharing. If all is well it should say Personal File Sharing is on above the stop/start button. If i doesnt let us know in your reply, but you may continue on with the rest of these instructions.
<pre style="padding: 5px; border: 1px dotted #f00; background-color: #000; color: #ccc; overflow: auto;">$ mkdir AFSFix
$ cd AFSFix</pre>
Now well make a working directory and navigate into it so we can easily delete the left overs from this little escapade later:
Ok now lets download the proper combo update so that we can extract the proper AppleFileServer.app I suspect your friend may have the opposite architecture as you so you need to make sure you for the right one and the version you want. So just to be sure we are going to extract it from the combo update. To download the update directly from terminal issue this command one of the following commands depending on your systems architecture:
For PPC
<pre style="padding: 5px; border: 1px dotted #f00; background-color: #000; color: #ccc; overflow: auto;">$ curl -O http://wsidecar.apple.com/cgi-bin/nph-reg3rdpty2.pl/product=11795&cat=60&platfor m=osx&method=sa/MacOSXUpdCombo10.4.8PPC.dmg</pre>
For Intel
<pre style="padding: 5px; border: 1px dotted #f00; background-color: #000; color: #ccc; overflow: auto;">$ curl -O http://wsidecar.apple.com/cgi-bin/nph-reg3rdpty2.pl/product=11797&cat=60&platfor m=osx&method=sa/MacOSXUpdCombo10.4.8Intel.dmg</pre>
When that is finished downloading (and it will take awhile) we need to mount the disk image. We can do this by issuing this command:
For PPC$ hdiutil attach MacOSXUpdCombo10.4.8PPC.dmg</pre>
For Intel
<pre style="padding: 5px; border: 1px dotted #f00; background-color: #000; color: #ccc; overflow: auto;">$ hdiutil attach MacOSXUpdCombo10.4.8Intel.dmg</pre>
Now that we have mounted the disk image we can copy the file we need to a local volume:
For PPC$ cp /Volumes/Mac\ OS\ X\ 10.4.8\ Combined\ Update/MacOSXUpdCombo10.4.8PPC.pkg/Archive.pax.gz Archive.pax.gz</pre>
For Intel
<pre style="padding: 5px; border: 1px dotted #f00; background-color: #000; color: #ccc; overflow: auto;">$ cp /Volumes/Mac\ OS\ X\ 10.4.8\ Combined\ Update\ \(Intel\)/MacOSXUpdCombo10.4.8Intel.pkg/Archive.pax.gz Archive.pax.gz</pre>
Ok now lets decompress the archive and get the file we want. First well decompress by issuing the following command (this may take a few minutes):
<pre style="padding: 5px; border: 1px dotted #f00; background-color: #000; color: #ccc; overflow: auto;">$ tar -xvzf Archive.pax.gz</pre>
Then we copy the AppleFileServer.app:
<pre style="padding: 5px; border: 1px dotted #f00; background-color: #000; color: #ccc; overflow: auto;">$ Archive/System/Library/CoreServices/AppleFileServer.app AppleFileServer-10.4.8.app</pre>
And then we can go ahead and unmount the disk image:
For PPC:
<pre style="padding: 5px; border: 1px dotted #f00; background-color: #000; color: #ccc; overflow: auto;">$ hdiutil detach /Volumes/Mac\ OS\ X\ 10.4.8\ Combined\ Update</pre>
For Intel
<pre style="padding: 5px; border: 1px dotted #f00; background-color: #000; color: #ccc; overflow: auto;">$ hdiutil detach /Volumes/Mac\ OS\ X\ 10.4.8\ Combined\ Update\ \(Intel\)</pre>
Ok now that we have the file we know we want we can replace the 10.4.9 version thats causing us headaches. First though we want to make sure the AppleFileServer isnt running. Open System Preferences and stop Personal File Sharing. After it shuts down lets close System Preferences. Now we will go ahead and replace the current AppleFileServer with the old version from 10.4.8 and set its ownership and permissions with the following 3 commands:
<pre style="padding: 5px; border: 1px dotted #f00; background-color: #000; color: #ccc; overflow: auto;">$ sudo cp AppleFileServer-10.4.8.app /System/Library/CoreServices/AppleFileServer.app
$ sudo chown root:wheel /System/Library/CoreServices/AppleFileServer.app
$ sudo chmod 755 /System/Library/CoreServices/AppleFileServer.app</pre>
Finally we want to remove the old plist jsut in case there are any differences between the key/value paris between these two versions:
<pre style="padding: 5px; border: 1px dotted #f00; background-color: #000; color: #ccc; overflow: auto;">$ sudo rm /Library/Preferences/com.apple.AppleFileServer.plist</pre>
Ok we should be good now. lets go ahead and reboot the computer. Then after we log back in we will go ahead and open System Preferences again and start Personal File Sharing. And then we can go ahead and test it out.
If everthing is working you can go ahead and delete ~/AFSFix
G4 Quick Silver 2001 800 Mhz Mac OS X (10.4.7)