AFPFS-NG is a client implementation of the Apple Filing Protocol written in C which can be used to access AFP shares exposed by multiple devices, notably older Mac OS computers, Linux/*BSD/Solaris (or even macOS) servers exporting shares with netatalk, Apple Airport and Time Capsule products as well as other NAS devices from various vendors.
You can use afpfs-ng either to mount an AFP share with FUSE, or interactively with the command-line client.
Mount the File Sharing volume from afpserver.local on /home/myuser/fusemount authenticated as user myuser (you will be prompted for the password):
% afp_client mount --user myuser --pass - "afpserver.local/File Sharing" /home/myuser/fusemount
Get status information about all AFP volumes mounted by the current user:
% afp_client status
Unmount the volume when you are done:
% afp_client unmount /home/myuser/fusemount
Shut down the afpfs-ng management daemon (afpfsd):
% afp_client exit
There is also an alternative command mount_afpfs included for mounting by AFP URL:
% mount_afpfs "afp://myuser:-@afpserver.local/File Sharing" /home/myuser/fusemount
Note: Quotation marks around the AFP URL are mandatory when spaces, colons, or other special characters are present.
The afpcmd command line client allows you to interactively access AFP shares. In the most basic use case, it takes an AFP URL as argument.
Open volume File Sharing on afpserver.local:
$ afpcmd "afp://myuser:-@afpserver.local/File Sharing"
Password: [input hidden]
Attempting connection to afpserver.local ...
Connected to server afpserver using UAM "DHX2"
Connected to volume File Sharing
afpcmd:
Connect anonymously to afpserver.local, list all volumes available to guest users:
$ afpcmd "afp://guest;AUTH=guest:@afpserver.local"
Attempting connection to afpserver.local ...
Connected to server afpserver using UAM "No User Authent"
Specify a volume with 'cd volume'. Choose one of: Dropbox, File Sharing
afpcmd: cd Dropbox
Connected to volume Dropbox
afpcmd: ls
-rw-r--r-- 6148 2025-07-11 14:09 .DS_Store
-rw------- 0 2025-10-12 00:39 bork.txt
-rw-r--r-- 108320 2025-10-12 13:59 afpfs-ng-0.9.0.tar.xz
-rw-r--r-- 46954 2023-08-03 02:03 Information Sheet.xlsx
drwxrwxrwx 0 2025-10-12 00:22 Scanned Documents
-rw-r--r-- 525362 2024-10-09 13:02 group_photo.jpg
afpcmd:
cd to change directories, ls to list, get file to retrieve file, put file to download file, and help for a list of all supported commands.
Download a file from the AFP share to the current directory:
$ afpcmd "afp://myuser:-@afpserver.local/File Sharing/afpfs-ng-0.9.0.tar.xz" .
Password: [input hidden]
Attempting connection to afpserver.local ...
Connected to server afpserver using UAM "DHX2"
Connected to volume File Sharing
Getting file /afpfs-ng-0.9.0.tar.xz
Transferred 108320 bytes in 0.002 seconds. (54000 kB/s)
The afpfs-ng project was created by Alex deVries and is distributed under the GNU GPL v2.
As the development of the original afpfs-ng project stopped in 2009, this fork was created in 2024 after consulting with Alex deVries with the intention to maintain and extend the project.
It contains elements from another defunct fork created by Simon Vetter in 2015, which added IPv6 support, UTF8 support and various bug fixes from the Boxee and XBMC (Kodi) projects.