AFP client to be removed

[mikeboss]

it's not clear if this will happen with macOS 16.

Discontinued and soon to disappear: Apple's network protocol AFP

SMB has long since replaced AFP in macOS, but users were still able to use the AFP client for network connections. This will soon come to an end.

www.heise.de

 

[Bigwaff]

There is always Netatalk

Netatalk - Networking Apple Macintosh through Open Source

Netatalk Wiki

netatalk.io

 

[mikeboss]

There is always Netatalk

Netatalk - Networking Apple Macintosh through Open Source

Netatalk Wiki

netatalk.io

the client is going to be removed. AFP server is gone since quite some time already...

 

[Bigwaff]

the client is going to be removed. AFP server is gone since quite some time already...

Ok.. well, AFP has been deprecated for nearly a decade. Big Sur removed AFP sharing. This news site only news site referring to AFP client removal but does not site its source except obscure reference to Apple "first announced this step in advance versions of macOS 15.5 Sequoia." (15.5 release notes? tech notes?) I guess we'll find out when the first betas of macOS 16 roll out this summer. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

 

[mikeboss]

Ok.. well, AFP has been deprecated for nearly a decade. Big Sur removed AFP sharing. This news site only news site referring to AFP client removal but does not site its source except obscure reference to Apple "first announced this step in advance versions of macOS 15.5 Sequoia." (15.5 release notes? tech notes?) I guess we'll find out when the first betas of macOS 16 roll out this summer. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

today we got the official announcement from Apple:

What's new for enterprise in macOS Sequoia - Apple Support

Learn about the enterprise content that Apple has released for macOS Sequoia.

support.apple.com

 

[Slix]

So that I am understanding this correctly, does this just mean that future macOS versions will not be able to connect to older Macs running an AFP server (like a Mac running 10.4 Tiger or something)? Or am I misunderstanding this?

If that's the case, I guess we will all maybe need another bridge Mac in the mix for some of those older Macs to connect to on both ends, with AFP and SMB.

 

[mikeboss]

So that I am understanding this correctly, does this just mean that future macOS versions will not be able to connect to older Macs running an AFP server?

yes, correct.

 

[eyoungren]

If that's the case, I guess we will all maybe need another bridge Mac in the mix for some of those older Macs to connect to on both ends, with AFP and SMB.

Which you are really going to want. Because Tiger's implementation of the SMB protocol is god-awful.

 

[Slix]

Which you are really going to want. Because Tiger's implementation of the SMB protocol is god-awful.

I've been using my 10.6 Snow Leopard Server Mac Mini has my go-between Mac for a while now, it seems to work well for things like this. I guess we'll see how it works in the future.