Apple Filing Protocol - The Mac OS X Client

The Mac OS X Client

In Mac OS X Tiger, users can connect to AFP servers by browsing for them in the Network globe or entering an AFP Uniform Resource Locator (URL) into the Connect to Server dialog. In OS X Leopard, AFP shares are displayed in the Finder side-bar. AFP URLs take the form: afp:///, where is the server's IP address, Domain Name System (DNS) name, or Bonjour name, and is the name of the share point. In Snow Leopard, a URL of the form afp://// can be used to mount a subdirectory underneath a share point.

Mac OS X also offers Personal File Sharing, a "light" implementation of the current version of AFP. In Mac OS X 10.4 client, users can share the contents of their Public folders by checking Personal File Sharing in the Sharing section of System Preferences.

AFP URLs for AppleTalk servers took the form: afp:/at/:. For networks without AppleTalk zones, an asterisk (*) would be substituted for the zone name.