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 time_travel volume from delorean.local on /mnt/timetravel without authentication:
% mount_afpfs "afp://delorean.local/time_travel" /mnt/timetravel
Same, with authentication:
% mount_afpfs "afp://simon:mypassword@delorean.local/time_travel" /mnt/timetravel
Same, with authentication, forcing the UAM of your choice (usually not needed):
% mount_afpfs "afp://simon;AUTH=DHX2:mypassword@delorean.local/time_travel" /mnt/timetravel
Note: Quotation marks around the AFP URL are mandatory when spaces, a colon, or other special characters are present.
Unmount the volume:
% fusermount -u /mnt/timetravel
Open volume time_travel on delorean.local:
$ afpcmd "afp://simon:mypassword@delorean.local/time_travel"
Attempting connection to delorean.local ...
Connected to server Delorean using UAM "DHX2"
Connected to volume time_travel
afpcmd:
Connect anonymously to delorean.local, list all volumes available to guest users:
$ afpcmd "afp://guest;AUTH=No User Authent:@delorean.local"
Attempting connection to delorean.local ...
Connected to server Delorean using UAM "No User Authent"
Specify a volume with 'cd volume'. Choose one of: dropbox, time_travel
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://simon:mypassword@delorean.local/time_travel/afpfs-ng-0.9.0.tar.xz" .
Attempting connection to delorean.local ...
Connected to server Delorean using UAM "DHX2"
Connected to volume time_travel
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 2008, this fork was created with the understanding of Alex deVries to maintain and extend the project.
It contains elements from another defunct fork by Simon Vetter, which added IPv6 support, UTF8 support and various bug fixes from the Boxee and XBMC (Kodi) projects.