To access your iPhone from within Finder you need to enable AFP (Apple Filing Protocol). Normally this is a command line undertaking but core has created AFPd which includes a GUI (graphical) interface for the iPhone. Many thanks core! Follow these instructions to install and configure AFPd on your iPhone.
Step One Press to select Installer on your Springboard.
Step Two Press to select the Install tab at the bottom of the screen.
Step Three Select Network from the list of Categories.
Step Four Select AFPd from the list of Packages.
Step Five Press the Install button at the top right hand corner of the screen.
Step Six Press the large Install button that appears to begin installation.
Step Seven Press the Ok button to confirm that you have no previous versions of AFP running.
Step Eight Press the Ok button complete installation.
Step Nine Press the Home button to return to your springboard. After a second the phone will bring you to the Locked screen. Move the slider to the right to unlock and return to your Springboard. Notice the new AFPd icon!
Step Ten Press the AFPd icon to open AFP Server Control. Here we can choose whether AFP is on or off as well as whether broadcasting is on or off.
Step Eleven Press to select Service Name. Enter the name which your iPhone will appear as in Finder and press the Go button.
Step Twelve You can now open a new Finder window by selecting its icon in the dock. Notice under the Shared category on the left you see your iPhone!
Step Fourteen Click the name of your iPhone from the list on the left. Then click the Connect As... button at the top right of your Finder window.
Step Fifteen In the popup window that appears enter root as your User Name and enter your iPhones password (it is usually alpine or dottie). Then click the Ok button.
Step Sixteen You will now notice that your iPhone's File System appears in the Finder window!
THANKS: Thanks to core for developing this gui and to the dev team and everyone that worked on Installer!
NOTES: If you are using Mac OS X Tiger then hit Command+k in the Finder window and enter your iPhone's IP Address to connect to it.
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i've been trying to figure out how to do this for nearly three days. clearly, i'm not all that proficient when it comes to the itouch as of yet.
yesterday AFPd was working on my iPod Touch, but I didn't realize I needed to connect to the server to find it (i know...basic stuff). So today when I realized it I re-downloaded AFPd and the Finder App but now AFPd doesn't work at all. The switch says the Server Active is "Off" and whenever I switch it it turns itself back off immediately. What am I doing wrong?
i've been trying to figure out how to do this for nearly three days. clearly, i'm not all that proficient when it comes to the itouch as of yet.
yesterday AFPd was working on my iPod Touch, but I didn't realize I needed to connect to the server to find it (i know...basic stuff). So today when I realized it I re-downloaded AFPd and the Finder App but now AFPd doesn't work at all. The switch says the Server Active is "Off" and whenever I switch it it turns itself back off immediately. What am I doing wrong?
Hi! everything worked until i wanted to connect through the finder (Tiger). Entered username and password, all ok. The it asked for a volume to select!?! the provided list was empty, and the ok button was inactive. thze only choice was to press the cancel button and this led to abortion of the whole process. :-/
any suggestions?
I've no AFDd in my network folder, and i've installed AFD software from de iclarified installer but there is no icon on my summerboard. Can somebody help??
Does this still work? I intalled AFP from the iClarified repo source and no icon shows up. I also tried it the same way as described in this tutorial and I am unable to turn AFP on. ANy ideas?