Manage AFP/SMB shares

As of Server.app v5.7.1 Apple moved the filesharing service to the Sharing control panel. Since then, GUI options for managing AFP and SMB shares are sparse and the command line is our new friend.

Don’t forget to add /Applications/Server.app/Contents/ServerRoot/usr/sbin/ to your PATH variable.

Edit AFP/SMB network volumes

The sharing tool comes in handy, for example, to use a customized volume name. By default, creating a network volume in the Sharing Control panel of system Preferences uses the last component of the directory’s path name (Finder’s folder name) as the network volume name. For example, to change the network name of the shared folder 3PAR-LUN to Users for both the AFP and SMB protocol, do

sudo sharing -e 3PAR-LUN -A Users -S Users

Show connected AFP/SMB users

Figuring out the connected users appears to be impossible from within the control panel. However Server.app comes with the /Applications/Server.app/Contents/ServerRoot/usr/sbin/serveradmin command-line tool. Finding AFP or SMB users is easy with these:

# show users of the AFP service
sudo serveradmin command afp:command = getConnectedUsers| grep "name ="

# show users of the SMB service
sudo serveradmin command smb:command = getConnectedUsers | grep "name ="