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by jms703 4276 days ago
no afp support?
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sciurus 4276 days 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?
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stock_toaster 4276 days 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.
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victorhooi 4276 days ago
I'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.

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conception 4276 days ago
AFP is generally faster than SMB and SMB2, but SMB3 should be faster than AFP. YMMV of course.
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wazoox 4276 days ago
Performance 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.
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schakrava 4276 days ago
No, but does is suggestion from our blog work for you?

http://rockstor.wordpress.com/2014/02/24/backup-mac-folders-...

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