AFP Out Of Date In OS X Lion

There is a way to re-enable the old DHCAST128 support in Lion. This has worked for me in both DP3 and DP4. I claim no credit, I merely found the information here:

http://www.alexanderwilde.com/2011/04/o ... orkaround/

Essentially it involves changing a couple of hidden defaults as follows:

To turn on “DHCAST128″ support please do the following:

1) Launch /Applications/Utilities/Terminal and do:
sudo chmod o+w /Library/Preferences
defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.AppleShareClient afp_host_prefs_version -int 1
Now restart your computer.

2) From Finder, select an AFP server, or use “Connect To…”. This will cause the AFP Client to create the full preferences file

3) Launch Terminal again and do:
sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.AppleShareClient afp_disabled_uams -array “Cleartxt Passwrd” “MS2.0″ “2-Way Randnum exchange”
sudo chmod o-w /Library/Preferences
Now restart your computer.

Note: To add a “DHCAST128″ to the disable list, use
sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.AppleShareClient afp_disabled_uams -array-add “DHCAST128″

I hope this is helpful. I don't have LionAFPd_2.1.3-rns-0.1.2.bin installed. I imagine Apple would regard this workaround as insecure.