Apple Filing Protocol - Third-party Implementations

Third-party Implementations

Third party server implementations of AFP are available from a number of companies.

• An open source AFP server called Netatalk (AFP 3.3) is available for Unix-like operating systems.
• Novell Open Enterprise Server supports AFP.
• Microsoft includes AFP 2.2 server support as an option in some versions of Windows (NT, 2000 & 2003). Windows NT Server (3 and 4) only supported AppleTalk, 2000 added AppleShare over IP; Services for Macintosh (SFM), was removed from Windows Server 2008 onwards.
• Novell's NetWare supports AFP.
• HELIOS UB+ supports AFP on a whole array of different Unix based platforms.
• The open source Filesystem in Userspace (FUSE) and command-line client implementation afpfs-ng for Linux and Unix-like operating systems
• GroupLogic ExtremeZ-IP (AFP 3.3) and MacServerIP for Windows offer AFP 3.x support.
• A few NAS solutions support AFP mostly by means of Netatalk: LaCie EtherNet Disk & 12big (AFP 3.3), NETGEAR's ReadyNAS (AFP 3.2), QNAP (AFP 3.x), Synology's Disk Stations (AFP 3.1), Thecus (AFP 3.x), Adaptec's Snap Server (AFP 3.1), Exanet's ExaStore (AFP 3.1), Iomega's Home Media Network Hard Drive, and Apple's Time Capsule (AFP 3.2) being commercial examples and FreeNAS and napp-it (which use Netatalk) being free software examples.
• Jaffer is a Java implementation of Appletalk File Protocol v3.1.
• Xinet has a product, ka-share, that has been a main stay on Solaris (on Sparc only) and Irix platforms for the last decade.
• Columbia AppleTalk Protocol (CAP) was an open source implementation of AFP and AppleTalk from Columbia University that has been discontinued and has fallen out of use.