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Since Apple has supported SMB for a long time, and actually made it the default protocol in 10.9, is there much need for AFP?
by sciurus 12y ago
Since Apple has supported SMB for a long time, and actually made it the default protocol in 10.9, is there much need for AFP?
- stock_toaster 12y ago> Since Apple has support SMB for a long time, and actually made it the default > protocol in 10.9, is there much need for AFP? Time machine backups still require afp I believe -- unless you use the "TMShowUnsupportedNetworkVolumes" option.
- victorhooi 12y agoI'm running AFP on FreeNAS. I also have SMB setup. I'm using OSX 10.9.4, and I've seen better performance over AFP than with SMB. So yes, it'd be nice to have AFP support.
- conception 12y agoAFP is generally faster than SMB and SMB2, but SMB3 should be faster than AFP. YMMV of course.
- wazoox 12y agoPerformance of SMB on Mac is only about half of AFP/NFS, and NFS is more complex to manage from an authorization/user management point of view in a Mac environment.