A presentation/application-layer protocol used by applications to communicate with the network.
A presentation/application-layer protocol used by applications to communicate with the network.
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AFP is a remote filing system protocol that provides a workstation on an AppleTalk network with access to a server that is implemented according to the AFP file system structure. AFP also includes user authentication support and an access control mechanism that supports volume-level and folder-level access rights. AppleShare is the AFP file server that is implemented on Macintosh computers.
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Through the native file system and AFP, your application running on one node can manipulate files on another node using the same file system commands on the remote node that it uses to manipulate files on its own node. You can use AFP commands to
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* obtain and modify information about the file server and other parts of the file
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* system structure
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* create and delete files and directories
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* read files or write to them
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* retrieve and store information within individual files
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AFP is implemented by the .XPP driver. The .XPP driver maps an AFP function call from the client workstation into one or more ASP function calls.
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===ASDSP (AppleTalk Safe Data Stream Protocol)===
===ASDSP (AppleTalk Safe Data Stream Protocol)===
A session-layer protocol that is similar to ADSP but that provides additional security against unauthorized use.
A session-layer protocol that is similar to ADSP but that provides additional security against unauthorized use.