Do I use SMB or AFP? AFP does not seem to work. I thought AFP was Mac's preferred file sharing protocol? Sharing a folder from a Catalina machine to another one, and two on High Sierra.
I can connect on the other computers via AFP but then the shared folder appears empty. I have all users and passwords set to the same thing. We do not need higher security than that.
Mac Pro, macOS 10.15
If the drive being shared is formatted as APFS, SMB is required.
Forgot to mention. Catalina and Mojave supposedly support AFP on an HFS+ formatted drive, but users are seeing inconsistent results. There's good info on it here.
Basically, AFP isn't a good choice from Catalina, even if the drive is HFS+.
We use a Synology NAS for our small home office. That runs on a version of Linux and we have no problem using AFP with it. A good thing for us since our main client loves to use characters in a file name SMB (Windows) doesn't allow.
It is formatted Mac OS Extended. The other computers have weird things happen when trying to delete files from it or change the label (the color of it) also. But not all the time.
Network is going through a smart switch to feed all the computers and printers, if that matters.
Good luck!
Thanks. The more I read AFP is a dead duck for the newer OS, so I will stick with SMB and see how that does. I still need to figure out the issues of weird things happening when trying to delete files or change the label (the color of it) from other computers connected to this shared folder.
What is current recomendation for file sharing in Catalina?
