Mojave and afp file sharing

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Mojave and afp file sharing

I have upgraded Mid 2015 MacBook Pro and 2014 Mac Mini to Mojave and since the upgrade afp file sharing no longer works. I use the Mini as a file server and when trying to connect to it from MacBook I just get 'Failed to connect' error. I have tried switching to smb but get constant permission errors saving Photoshop files and permission errors with .smbdelete files from any MS Office file. I have rolled the Mini back to High Sierra and afp is working fine again and I can save all files to it across the network. I am connecting via ethernet and using and old 3rd generation Time Capsule as a switch.

Has anyone had similar issues with Mojave and afp or is just me? Please post if you have.

MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2015), macOS Mojave (10.14)

Posted on Oct 9, 2018 1:23 AM

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lucaswj

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Oct 24, 2018 1:59 PM in response to jacopo273

Exactly the same problem. SMB shares that worked 100 percent reliably in High Sierra are getting dropped left and right under Mojave. It's to a level where getting any work done with files from the server are pointless.

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Oct 9, 2018 9:30 AM in response to Squidder

Apple has discontinued mounted AFP support when the boot drive is formatted as APFS. As was already recommended by woodmeister50, use SMB.

The exception to the above is my Synology DiskStation NAS that serves AFP over TCP, and continues to mount server content to Mojave.

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Squidder Author

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Oct 9, 2018 2:31 PM in response to woodmeister50

Hi,

Yes, have tried with both selected and just smb. Either way when I connect with SMB I can't open, edit and save Photoshop files without permission error and also get .smddelete permissions error opening and editing MS Office files. Boot drive for Mini is Mac OS Extended (Journaled). Shame Apple are dropping afp support as it works great. All my issues are coming from smb.

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Oct 9, 2018 9:21 AM in response to Squidder

Did you have both AFP and SMB checked when setting

up the network shares? Make sure only SMB is checked.

FWIW, SMB has been the preferred network file transfer protocol

since Mavericks.

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Answer 5

Oct 15, 2018 2:21 PM in response to Squidder

Exactly the same problems.... 😠

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