Talk:Apple Filing Protocol

message: The article provided as a reference quotes 2 GB. This is ambiguous. Unless it can be shown that this article means 2^31 bytes, this must remain 2 GB. Changing values without reference is original research. --Steven Fisher 21:19, 9 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: New source makes this perfect, thanks. --Steven Fisher 22:49, 9 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Huh, I thought I replied to you here, but apparently I didn't. You're welcome :) --SLi 23:31, 9 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  GiB vs GB 

message: The article states that AFP is a Presentation Layer protocol, but isn't it really an Application Layer Protocol? Bobbyrullo 07:15, 26 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  OSI Network Layer 

message: I don't fully understand this, but in Tiger the protocol was "afp:/at/<server>:*" but in Leopard you must use two slashes.  I can't even get the "connect to server" dialog to connect at all now!  This change should be more clearly described in the article. -kslays (talk) 15:28, 4 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I finally got it working by dragging the connection into the connect to server dialog.  Here is the form it takes: afp://<server>._afpovertcp._tcp.local/ Is this standard?  If so, it should be in the article.  -kslays (talk) 20:19, 11 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Wikipedia is not a manual.  Guy Harris (talk) 01:48, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Change in Leopard 

message: I'm going to suggest that we rewrite this article.  There's nothing wrong with the facts within (and we should preserve them), but the flow and general organization make it hard to read and expand.
I'd suggest an overview that looks something like:
* a better history, with a timeline of versions and client releases
* clearly separating protocol from implementation; most of what's there now is about implementation
** list of clients and their capabilities
** list of servers and their capabilities
** overview of the differences in versions
** general features (filename lengths, resource forks, internationalization)
** security concerns
** interaction with Time Machine
** usage for Spotlight
* creating a new section on the protocol itself:
** how it relates to [[Data Stream Interface|DSI] and AppleTalk  (AppleTalk and AFP are often confused)
** basics of the protocol (strings, GetFileDirParms, etc)
** login sequences
** how filenames are handled
** UAM descriptions
There's a fair amount written on AFP out there already, but there's no one reference that puts all the information together in a guided coherent way.  This could be it.
Alexthepuffin (talk) 20:52, 6 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Restructuring this article 

message: OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard has dropped compatibility with AFP older than v3.0. Pre-OS X Macs are limited to v2, so file-sharing with them is no longer possible.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 93.163.57.193 (talk) 19:50, 1 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Changes in Snow Leopard 

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