Mounting a local Vollume via AFP

[Steve Steinitz]

Hi Martin,

Thanks for the cool idea.

On Sunday, 29 July 2007 at 6:27 am, Martin Costabel wrote:

> You can fool the Finder to connect to localhost via afp, by using an ssh 
> tunnel to change the afpovertcp port from 548 to something else:
> 
>   ssh localhost -f -N -L 10548:localhost:548
> 
> Then connect to afp://localhost:10548/
> 
> This sort of "works", but when I tried it, the Mac became unresponsive 
> after a short while and had to be force-rebooted.

Now that is just the sort of black incantation I was wondering about.
Thanks for taking the time to perfect the syntax, test it out and share
your findings.

Your idea of fooling OSX with tunnelling is interesting.  Version
Tracker shows a couple of tunnelling applications.  AlmostVPN looks
like a way to understand tunnelling to the nth degree.

Steve