Re:Shutting down public FTP services
by mschuster91 on Wednesday April 26, 2017 @03:18AM
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> The protocol you want is SMB.
Uh, hell no. Never ever I'd expose a SMB server to the Internet. SMB is really picky when the link has packet loss or latency issues, plus the countless SMB-based security issues.
> Even Apple has given up on their own file-sharing protocol (AFP) in favor of macOS machines just speaking SMB to one-another.
Uh, hell no. Never ever I'd expose a SMB server to the Internet. SMB is really picky when the link has packet loss or latency issues, plus the countless SMB-based security issues.
> Even Apple has given up on their own file-sharing protocol (AFP) in favor of macOS machines just speaking SMB to one-another.
TimeMachine still depends on AFP.