4.1. Client Storage
The first and most visible type of client storage holds your users' shared files and folders; the second is used to synchronize or store users' home directories (which are similar to profiles in Microsoft Windows). For the purpose of this chapter, we'll call the former file storage and the latter home-folder or home-directory storage.
Whichever you're dealing with, for file sharing, AFP is the Mac's native language and will perform the best from the client perspective. Though other protocols also enjoy wide adoption in enterprises, for the most part, if you can provide your Mac clients with storage over AFP, they'll get the best performance and you'll have the fewest issues to troubleshoot on the client side. That said, if ...
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