Edit Greeting on File Sharing

You could look at it in the Server app however if you don't mind getting into the terminal you can run this command (copy/paste it)

N.B. All the commands in the different font below are one line. The Apple forum software splts them when displaying. Copy/paste them as one line.

sudo serveradmin settings afp:loginGreeting

type in administrator password when prompted.

You will/should see something like this

afp:loginGreeting = "Your message you want to have go away"

To reset it run this command

sudo serveradmin settings afp:loginGreeting = ""

Great info FromOZ!! Any chance you know how to disable this greeting all together? I'm running 10.8.2 server and I can't seem to find the switch to disable the message alltogether. My users are seeing a generic welcome message when they mount thier home directories.

Alas, this didn't fix it for me.

I am using SERVER 2.1.1

In the File Sharing section, I selected a specific share and activated the Edit Greeting... feature in the Cog Wheel drop down menu (thinking this would apply a specific message to that share only).

I immediately discovered that the greeting applied to all users logging into any share on that server.

I returned to the share and removed the text from the Edit Greeting window, leaving it blank.

All users continued to get the greeting (for any share point)

I then removed the share.

The greeting persists.

Hoping for a guru here!

Cheers

I also have this problem. Tried removing the text from all AFP shares however I still get a greeting pop up whenever my laptop begins a Time Machine backup. Very annoying.

I just wanted to chime in here to say that I'm having the same issue as the OP. I would love to say this solved the issue for me but the command:

sudo serveradmin settings afp:loginGreeting = ""

Simply returns the old greeting as if I was querying what the message was. I can use the command:

afp:loginGreeting = "Your message you want to have go away"

Which appears to have changed the message but when you connect to the share point it still displays the old message. I've also tried removing the share and re-adding it to no avail.

CdaveC wrote:

Great info FromOZ!! Any chance you know how to disable this greeting all together? I'm running 10.8.2 server and I can't seem to find the switch to disable the message alltogether. My users are seeing a generic welcome message when they mount thier home directories.

The problem is the server.app isn't removing the following file when the greeting is erased in the GUI. This is a work-around until apple fixes the problem. This command will kick everyone out of their network shares so it may need to be run during off hours. It worked for me in OSX 10.8 using server version 2.2.1

Run the following from terminal after closing out of the server.app:

sudo defaults delete /Library/Preferences/com.apple.AppleFileServer loginGreeting

killall AppleFireServer

Relaunch the server app.

Did JustDrewIt's terminal commands work for anyone? I'm having this problem too. Newcomer here.

thanks

M

THANK-YOU! JustDrewIt

having just migrated from an old server to a new 10.9.2 Mavericks, Server 3.1

it turned on an annoying User greeting... which I couldnt find the setting for anywhere in the GUI

Your terminal commands turned it off, FINALLY!

🙂

marcuskyd wrote:

Did JustDrewIt's terminal commands work for anyone? I'm having this problem too. Newcomer here.

thanks

M

YES!

having closed out the app, sudo defaults delete removed my greeting

killall (didnt do anything "No matching processes")

but the problem was gone when I Relaunch the server app.

Thanks for the fix! My users will be happier now!