AFP vs. SMB
Posted by Doug Sat, 15 Oct 2005 18:51:19 GMT
I had my Home Fileserver setup to share my data directories using netatalk and the AFP protocol. When both of my powerbooks were running Mac OS 10.3 “Panther”, it worked fine. When I upgraded Carla’s powerbook to Mac OS 10.4 “Tiger” she could no longer connect. I’ve fought with this several times and today finally caved in and installed samba. It took me about 15 minutes from the time I installed until Carla’s machine could mount the drive, read, and write photos.
I don’t know why it makes me sad to use Samba over netatalk. Samba’s a fine piece of software with a long and glorious history. It just seems wrong somehow to resort to SMB when using Macs. Oh, well. We do what has to be done.
Fix your netatalk, and you can go back to using afp. Check that have encryption enabled.