AppleShare

Early installations used mainly LocalTalk (and more recently Ethernet), but any physical medium could be used which could be directly or indirectly connected to an AppleShare server system.

Equivalent third-party server products include the open-source Netatalk suite on Unix-like systems, and Services for Macintosh on Microsoft Windows NT and 2000.

Versions of Mac OS from System 7 onwards included Personal File Sharing, which is a more limited AFP implementation.

The most obvious difference between Personal File Sharing and AppleShare is that the former supports only a small number of concurrent remote users.

Apple discontinued the AppleShare product line following the release of macOS Server, which provides equivalent functionality.