Turn File Sharing On/Off via command line?

TommyWillB

TommyWillB

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I'm @ work and want to grab a bunch of file from my Mac @ home... I leave Personal File Sharing on when I know I'll need to do this, but currently it's off.

I have SSH enabled on my machine at home, and so I'm wondering if there is a command-line way of toggling this On/Off... or is the Pref Panel GUI the only way?

I know there are about 15 other ways I can get my files, but this seems like it would be the easiest...
 
As it turns out, this is insanely easy to do.

To start AFP:
sudo AppleFileServer

To stop AFP:
sudo killall -TERM AppleFileServer

And that's it.
 
Oh, one more thing: this launches the file server daemon, but it doesn't start up the other daemon that advertises the service over Rendezvous. So don't be startled that it doesn't show up.
 
Anyone know how to get this to work in 10.6 with Bonjour availability?

I'm not seeing that:

sudo AppleFileServer


still works in 10.6

Thanks
 
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