Last Thursday I merged the Apple Filing Protocol (AFP) backend for GVfs; so we finally have support for Apple shares too now. It has been written by Carl-Anton Ingmarsson and it was his Summer of Code 2011 project. It is on the master branch and thus will be in the next unstable release. Please test it and report bugs against the "afp backend" component.
Carl-Anton did quite an impressive job - probably best depicted by the diffstat of the merge:
client/Makefile.am | 1
client/afpuri.c | 269 ++
client/gdaemonvfs.c | 2
configure.ac | 31
daemon/Makefile.am | 45
daemon/afp-browse.mount.in | 8
daemon/afp.mount.in | 5
daemon/gvfsafpconnection.c | 1651 ++++++++++++++++
daemon/gvfsafpconnection.h | 420 ++++
daemon/gvfsafpserver.c | 1033 ++++++++++
daemon/gvfsafpserver.h | 85
daemon/gvfsbackendafp.c | 4292 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
daemon/gvfsbackendafp.h | 23
daemon/gvfsbackendafpbrowse.c | 608 +++++
daemon/gvfsbackendafpbrowse.h | 47
daemon/gvfsbackenddnssd.c | 6
daemon/gvfsjobsetattribute.h | 1
17 files changed, 8491 insertions(+), 36 deletions(-)
Or you could fix the ssh and/or ftp module so they don't hang randomly and support permissions (and thus be unusable).
Sory that was my two minutes of hate.
In relation to Apple updating AFP in Lion and breaking virtually all(?) third party network drives in the process I'm somewhat curious which version of AFP is supported, does it interoperate with OS X Lion?