Lion: Connecting to legacy (pre-Lion) AFP services - and Mac OS X (server)

Question

After upgrading to MacOS X Lion, it was discovered that it was not possible to logon to Novell-shares and NAS-boxes (e.g. Qnap).
Here is a recipe that has been tested OK with the following combinations:
* Mac OS X Lion -> Novell shares
* Mac OS X Lion -> Mac OS X 10.5 server
* Mac OS X Lion -> Mac OS X Lion
Please note that the command-lines themselves must not have CR/NL-characters. Copy the commands to a text-editor and remove format-inserted CR/NL-characters.
Another note: Your logon will be less secure with these changes. Later when e.g. Novell and/or your NAS-box support native Lion-logon, then please remove the AppleShareClient-parameter changes again with the first block.
Recipe:
The following block can be skipped if you have not previously changed AppleShareClient-parameters:
sudo -s
chmod o+w /Library/Preferences
cd  /Library/Preferences/
rm com.apple.AppleShareClient.plist*
! Restart
The following block makes it possible to logon to: (1) Novell-shares (2) Pre Lion Mac-OS-X-volumes - and possibly non-native Lion logon NAS-shares:
sudo -s
chmod o+w /Library/Preferences
defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.AppleShareClient afp_host_prefs_version -int 1
! Restart
You now have to logon a real account (non-guest) on another Mac OS X Lion volume
to catalyst a creation of AppleShareClient-files. (See Apple-support-link) (Is this necessary?)
! instead?:
/bin/sleep 60
chmod o+w /Library/Preferences
defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.AppleShareClient afp_disabled_uams -array "Cleartxt Passwrd" "MS2.0" "2-Way Randnum exchange"
defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.AppleShareClient afp_disabled_uams -array "DHX2"
defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.AppleShareClient afp_disabled_uams -array "DHCAST128"
chmod o-w /Library/Preferences
PS:
Possibly all volume-links may be deletes and recreated to use the new logon-parameters?
Sources for command-bricks:
OS X Lion: Connecting to legacy AFP services:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4700
AFP changes in OSX Lion:
http://www.novell.com/communities/node/13155/afp-changes-osx-lion
AFP support for DHX2 authentication mechanism on OES:
http://www.novell.com/support/search.do?cmd=displayKC&docType=kc&externalId=7008 683&sliceId=1&docTypeID=DT_TID_1_1
"/bin/sleep 60":
Making My NAS Work in Lion:
http://krypted.com/mac-os-x/making-my-nas-work-in-lion/
Example:
bash-3.2# chmod o+w /Library/Preferences
bash-3.2# cd  /Library/Preferences/
bash-3.2# rm /Library/Preferences/com.apple.AppleShareClient.plist*
bash-3.2# chmod o-w /Library/Preferences
bash-3.2#
! Restart
Last login: Fri Aug 12 14:41:58 on console
$ sudo -s
Password:
bash-3.2# chmod o+w /Library/Preferences
bash-3.2# defaults read /Library/Preferences/com.apple.AppleShareClient afp_disabled_uams
2011-08-12 14:42:31.172 defaults[188:707]
The domain/default pair of (com.apple.AppleShareClient, afp_disabled_uams) does not exist
bash-3.2#
! Restart
Last login: Fri Aug 12 14:47:31 on console
$ sudo -s
Password:
bash-3.2# chmod o+w /Library/Preferences
bash-3.2# defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.AppleShareClient afp_disabled_uams -array "Cleartxt Passwrd" "MS2.0" "2-Way Randnum exchange"
bash-3.2# defaults read /Library/Preferences/com.apple.AppleShareClient afp_disabled_uams(
    "Cleartxt Passwrd",
    "MS2.0",
    "2-Way Randnum exchange"
bash-3.2# defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.AppleShareClient afp_disabled_uams -array "DHX2"
bash-3.2# defaults read /Library/Preferences/com.apple.AppleShareClient afp_disabled_uams
    DHX2
bash-3.2# defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.AppleShareClient afp_disabled_uams -array "DHCAST128"
bash-3.2# defaults read /Library/Preferences/com.apple.AppleShareClient afp_disabled_uams
    DHCAST128
bash-3.2# chmod o-w /Library/Preferences
bash-3.2#
Also posted here:
Lion: Connecting to legacy (pre-Lion) AFP services - and Mac OS X (server):
http://forum.qnap.com/viewtopic.php?f=30&t=48143
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?p=13166617

Answer 1

hammer58 wrote:
Thanks for your response, but this all looks pretty complicated to me.  I am not sure from this which lines I need to use and what I don't need.
What are CR/NL characters?
In plain text files carriage-return (CR) and new-line (NL) has:
LF, NL: decimal 10, hexadecimal 0x0A
CR: decimal 13, hexadecimal 0x0D
References:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carriage_return
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line_feed
http://www.asciitable.com/
Especially:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line_feed#Representations
Quote: "...
CR+LF: Microsoft Windows, DEC TOPS-10, RT-11 and most other early non-Unix and non-IBM OSes, CP/M, MP/M, DOS (MS-DOS, PC-DOS, etc.), Atari TOS, OS/2, Symbian OS, Palm OS
LF+CR: Acorn BBC spooled text output.
CR:   Commodore 8-bit machines, Acorn BBC, TRS-80, Apple II family, Mac OS up to version 9 and OS-9
LF:   Multics, Unix and Unix-like systems (GNU/Linux, AIX, Xenix, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, etc.), BeOS, Amiga, RISC OS, and others.
RS:   QNX pre-POSIX implementation.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newline#Unicode
Quote:"...
The Unicode standard defines a large number of characters that conforming applications should recognize as line terminators:[3]
LF:   Line Feed, U+000A
VT:   Vertical Tab, U+000B
FF:   Form Feed, U+000C
CR:   Carriage Return, U+000D
CR+LF: CR (U+000D) followed by LF (U+000A)
NEL:  Next Line, U+0085
LS:   Line Separator, U+2028
PS:   Paragraph Separator, U+2029
If you have Linux, classic Mac or Windows/DOS text files, and you want to convert their LF/CR-flavor to another, then TextWrangler can do it for you; choose new LF/CR-combination via bottom button of the text file window. TextWrangler can be downloaded for free - also via App Store.
TextWrangler:
http://www.barebones.com/products/textwrangler/