Apple Training Series: Mac OS X Support Essentials v10.6: A Guide to Supporting and Troubleshooting Mac OS X v10.6 Snow Leopard

AFP uses a remote volume like a local volume and permits you to

• Mount a shared volume from a remote computer

• Navigate through the hierarchy for the remote file system

• Depending on your privileges, read/write/delete/execute

AFP saves documents and files directly to a remote volume like saving to a local volume. It is used over TCP/IP. (AppleTalk is no longer supported.) It uses URL format to locate servers. For example:

TCP: afp://user:password@server/volume/path

Resources for AFP are located in /System/Library/Filesystems.

AFP can be enabled by turning on Personal File Sharing in the Services pane of Sharing preferences.