Taking a step together for AFP

November 11th, 2009

I guess many of you are just as eager as we are to put an end to the AFP adventure ride we’ve been lost in for so long.
To take the next step though, we’ll need a bit of help from you.

Please, if you experienced broken AFP functionality the 1.7.6 release, run this diagnostic build for us.
The build detects what kind of protocols are used on the problem devices.

Here’s the build then: AFPInfoForkLift

and here’s how it works:
1. Launch the diagnostic build (first quit the regular copy of ForkLift)
2. Launch ‘Console’ with Spotlight
3. In the ForkLift Sidebar, click on the shared device to which ForkLift 1.7.6 failed to connect.
4. Something like this will show up in Console:

11/11/09 5:51:14 PM ForkLift[5510] ##### AFPINFO START: 10.0.10.168 #####
11/11/09 5:51:14 PM ForkLift[5510] versions: 4
11/11/09 5:51:14 PM ForkLift[5510] 10.0.10.168: supported protocols: AFP3.3
11/11/09 5:51:14 PM ForkLift[5510] 10.0.10.168: supported protocols: AFP3.2
11/11/09 5:51:14 PM ForkLift[5510] 10.0.10.168: supported protocols: AFP3.1
11/11/09 5:51:14 PM ForkLift[5510] 10.0.10.168: supported protocols: AFPX03
11/11/09 5:51:14 PM ForkLift[5510] uams: 5
11/11/09 5:51:14 PM ForkLift[5510] 10.0.10.168: supported uams: DHCAST128
11/11/09 5:51:14 PM ForkLift[5510] 10.0.10.168: supported uams: DHX2
11/11/09 5:51:14 PM ForkLift[5510] 10.0.10.168: supported uams: Recon1
11/11/09 5:51:14 PM ForkLift[5510] 10.0.10.168: supported uams: Client Krb v2
11/11/09 5:51:14 PM ForkLift[5510] 10.0.10.168: supported uams: No User Authent
11/11/09 5:51:14 PM ForkLift[5510] ##### AFPINFO END: 10.0.10.168 #####

5. Copy the output in Console (select lines from ##### AFPINFO START: ##### to ##### AFPINFO END: #####)
6. In an email to bugreport@binarynights.com describe the type of the device (eg. Synology Diskstation), and paste in the diagnostic output.

Thanks for your help
crew


2 Responses to “Taking a step together for AFP”

  1. Rene says:

    Hey Guys,

    any progress with the sent in console output?

    /René

  2. Mudi says:

    Actually I just finished DHCAST128 authentication which will (hopefully) solve 99% of the problems. Needs some polish but I think we can release it next week.