Accessing AFP Shares Over Local Network

So I'm having a wee bit of trouble at the moment. I'm trying to mount some shares from a Mac Mini on my home network but no matter what I try I cant seem to get it working. I've gone ahead and installed AFPFS

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sudo apt-get install afpfs-ng

This installs fine and seems to work until I want to mount a share. I've already set up some folders to mount the shares to:

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/Volumes/Movies/
/Volumes/TV/

When I run the command

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mount_afp afp://Username:Password@IPAddress/ShareName /MountLocation

I get this:

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The afpfs daemon does not appear to be running for uid 0, let me start it for you
Mounting 10.0.1.42 from Steve on /Volumes/Steve
Mounting of volume Steve of server Steve succeeded.

Which seems ok until I try to access the folder when I get a

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-bash: cd: /Volumes/Steve/: Permission denied

More errors if I try

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sudo cd /Volumes/Steve/
sudo: cd: command not found

Hopefully someone out there will be able to help. I know that there are other Distros that have native support for AFP but I've put a fair amount of time into my Rasbian image to start over with something new. Cheers

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-bash: cd: /Volumes/Steve/: Permission denied
More errors if I try
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sudo cd /Volumes/Steve/
sudo: cd: command not found

Hopefully someone out there will be able to help. I know that there are other Distros that have native support for AFP but I've put a fair amount of time into my Rasbian image to start over with something new. Cheers
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Sounds like you have not set file permissions correctly. Make sure you have rw permsiion on the /Volumes and Steve directory. I live dangerously, so I would 'sudo chmod 777 /Volumes' and 'sudo chmod 777 /Volumes/Steve'. Then use /Volumes/Steve as your mount point.

I am doing much the same as you, mounting AFP shares from my Mac as server. I am sometimes unable to unmount a share and thus remained connected to my Mac until I reboot the rpi and restart the Mac. This is repeatable under the following condition. Play a video file from the server using either omxplayer or mplayer. After the video finishes, afp_client unmount /mountpoint returns no response from server, as well as afp_client status returns no response from server. The server is still active and I can continue to access files, but am unable to disconnect/unmount. This happens with video only if the video completes. If I stop the video before it completes the server connection is normal and I can do a status or unmount successfully. Weird.

Anyone else noticed this abnormal behavior?

I was having the same issue. After you mount the shared folder type:

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sudo su

then type:

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mount

This will display all your mounted disks. It will also give you the path to the mount e.g.

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/home/pi/mountname

Type:

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cd /home/pi/mountname

I am new to linux and having a ball with all the permissions

Forgot to mention, if you use "sudo su" and it prompts you for the root password and fails, type:

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sudo gconftool-2  --type bool  --set  /apps/gksu/sudo-mode  true

I found this (can't remember where), but there seems to be a bug where the su password will always fails. This usually fixes it.

Thought this would be a good tutorial for the wiki. Comments, suggestions welcome http://elinux.org/Mounting_AFP_Shares_To_a_Mac_Over_Local_Network