Smbup connection problems software#
You can run the open source software Netatalk on any *nix system, and share files with an Apple client using AFP. It was also renamed "Apple File Protocol" to drop the association with AppleTalk, and try not to confuse people. They also modified AFP so that it could use TCP/IP as it's transport, and that is still alive in OSX today. Many years later, Apple dropped support for both AppleTalk and IPX, and standardised on TCP/IP like everyone else. It also contained a file sharing protocol with it, which was called the "Appletalk Filing Protocol", or AFP. AppleTalk was a collection of things, including a communication protocol down at the layer2/3 in the OSI model, that was more akin to IPX (compare and contrast to TCP/IP). All the same, it's worth knowing if you need to test an older version of the protocol for some reason (which does perform differently under OSX in certain circumstances, again mostly due to Apple's stupidity).Ĭlick to expand.More clarification: Appletalk and AFP are somewhat related, but ultimately two different things. Apple's insistence on using them to differentiate between versions of the protocols is not only confusing, but also inaccurate. Both are just marketing names for the same concepts (CIFS in particular was chosen to try and lure people away from NFS, and is entirely a marketing jargon thing). There are really no differences between SMB and CIFS at the technology level. Samba is an open source implementation of the SMB/CIFS protcols, as well as a very large volume of surrounding technologies that manage authentication and authorization of users (mostly emulating both a WindowsNT4 domain controller, as well as an Active Directory 2000 through 2008 domain controller). There is no such thing as "The Samba Protocol". If you specify the URI with "smb://", you will connect at the highest common SMB protocol available at both ends (from 1.0 up to and including SMB protocol 3.0, under 10.11 El Capitan). Specifically under MacOSX and Apple's lingo, "cifs://" forces a share to connect using SMB protocol 1.0. Vendors (not any one in particular - Sun/Oracle, IBM, Microsoft and Apple all have a hand in SMB/CIFS) try to confuse the issue with different names for different things, but they are the same.
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