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  • Apple Filing Protocol will soon disappear completely from macOS

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    brianjo said:
    smschaef said:
    It will be sad to see AFP go... SMB is blocked by many ISPs leaving not many options for a mounted desktop style of file sharing
    Huh?  Are you saying you're still just opening up port 548 and sharing that wide open on the internet???  Yikes.

    It's a far better solution to set up a VPN to connect into and then you can share whatever service you desire.
    I don't see any "Yikes" about that...it's not an issue. Port 548 isn't used for anything else and anyone can bang on it all day without causing an issue, unless they're trying to do a DoS on your AFP server or they have stolen credentials. Is it "Yikes" that your public webserver is open on 443?

    Of course, stolen credentials are an issue, as there's not MFA by default. So adding a VPN with MFA would put that layer of protection in place. But 548 open isn't a particular danger.
    watto_cobra