Disabling SMB protocol on client Mac's

[Miles.Kelly97]

Hi guys

I was wondering if any of you could help, I want all of our client Mac's to connect to our servers via AFP, so the shared folders and files are set to only be able to be connected to via AFP. However so client Mac's will still try to connect via SMB when you open a Finder window, go to shared and click on the server and say connect as.

Is there any way i can turn off the ability to connect to a server via SMB for a client Mac?

Thanks
Miles K

 

[wubsylol]

I can't replicate what you're talking about.
My Mac always defaults to AFP when connecting to servers sharing both SMB and AFP.

Your problem sounds more like the server's zeroconf implementation is not correctly announcing what services it has.

 

[codalo]

Hi guys

I was wondering if any of you could help, I want all of our client Mac's to connect to our servers via AFP, so the shared folders and files are set to only be able to be connected to via AFP. However so client Mac's will still try to connect via SMB when you open a Finder window, go to shared and click on the server and say connect as.

Is there any way i can turn off the ability to connect to a server via SMB for a client Mac?

Thanks
Miles K

For what reason do you want to force everyone to use AFP? I'm not saying its wrong just wondering why.
I am considering doing the same because of random drops of the SHARES.

Thanks

 

[AppleNewton]

to force AFP you have to have afp:// prefaced first in the mapping url as long as it supports AFP, as SMB is the default file sharing protocol since Mavericks.

 

[HenryAZ]

Recent versions (starting with Yosemite?) have defaulted to using SMB and the default sharing protocol. Both are available.

In System Preferences/Sharing, click the Options button and you will see both checked. Uncheck SMB if you don't want it used.