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The application protocol will soon completely disappear from MacOS

Apple established the Apple registration protocol in the MacOS Sequoia 15.5.

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Apple's application application is one of the original technologies for exchanging Apple files. called the Apple Registration Protocol. How the Internet and its open protocols became popular in the mid-1990s. The resource containing the user interface and other elements.

Later Apple has developed an additional environment of cooperation and exchange called Apple Open Collaboration Environment (Aoce) and PowerTalk, both of which were malfunctions. Aoce was introduced in the Mac OS 7.1.1, but did not gain any real traction to the modernization of the Mac OS 8.5 when it was updated.

MacOS for keys and was originally part of the Apple PowerTalk software.

When the Internet was commercialized in the mid-1990s, Apple canceled AOCE in favor of Internet standards such as TCP/IP. Apple also sold a separate server product in a box called Appleshare Server, which Matt Fuller has several impressive photos on his website.

a late version of Appleshare, packed in the form of an autonomous product called Appleshare IP, which allowed AFP to work through TCP/IP networks.

The voluminous apple ball and the volumes of discs, separated from the MAC users, were available through the original Mac software component called Chooser. Later versions of the choice allowed a direct IP connection with the servers, pressing the button and indicating the IP -open.

Now the Mac OS X Server product also included AFP, SMB/CIFS and NFS file services as part of its file exchange functions. Apple even sold a pre -tuned MAC based on the PowerPC G4, which had a pre -uploaded IP Appleshare IP.

The original choice of the Mac OS with the selected Appleshare mark. OS X in 2000. Mac OS X included AFP and Appleshare support to OS X 10.9 (Mavericks) when Apple switched the default exchange protocol to MacOS to Microsoft (SMB).

Apple removed the ability to run the AFP server in MacOS 11 (Big Sur). However, users can still use the AFP client in Finder at MacOS through go- & gt; Connect to the server menu item and AFP: //Protocol for connection.

When you connect to that AFP in the MacOS Finder, the connected total volume (s) is mounted on your desktop, like local disk volumes.

In the early 2000s, Macs included the Mac OS 9 emulator with the name Classic, which also allowed users to continue using OS 9 and connect to and Mac Mac Mac OS X using AFP:

Apple determines AFP support in Sequoia 15.5, and for Sextia 15.5

Thus, you must transfer all your work processes of file exchange and network transmission to SMB. For old servers only for UNIX, which still support NFS, this protocol can still be used.

there is an NFS application for MacOS, called the NFS manager from Germany Marcel Bressink.

on the Macs Pre-155 cm. In the terminal of the AFP Mount_AFP command with the opening of the terminal and set of text:

Man Mount_AFP and pressing Return On your keyboard. To get out of the human system, click Control-Z or the Q key.

several third-party NAS suppliers, such as Synology and others, include AFP support in their products, but this will probably end soon. You probably have to use SMB to connect to them.

Appleshare IP 6 User Management Manual. And still supported since 2025. How long Netatalk can support AFP, however, what has yet to be seen, since it is also based on the protocol itself.

Since Apple deleted the support of the AFP of the native nucleus from MacOS, even third-party AFP products may no longer work.

If you are still using the old Mac OS 7, 8 or 9.x car, check AppleTalk through IP.

to obtain information about the developer on AFP, now a somewhat outdated programming manual Apple Protocol. There is also Technote TN3151: the choice of the correct network API.

AFP served Apple well. It was simple and easy to use – and it was reliable. But since we live in the world of TCP/IP and Windows based on Windows, he survived his usefulness.

Time has already gone to retire.

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