• Mac OS X,  Mac OS X Server

    Use wfsctl to Manage WebDAV Shares in macOS 10.13 High Sierra

    Apple has slowly been moving us away from the legacy afp file sharing protocol for some time. High Sierra (macOS 10.13) now comes with a new suite of tools to manage WebDAV shares. Most of these are configurable using wfsctl located at /usr/sbin/wfsctl. When run, the tool reports as “WebDAV File Sharing control utility.” To start the WebDAV service, use the start verb: wfsctl start At this point, the service will attempt to lookup the hostname of the server. If the hostname cannot be found (or once found does not match the expected results) then the service will not start. For more on why this might be happening, use the…