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[[Category:How-To]] [[Category:Computers]]The Apple File Protocol (AFP) is built right into [[Mac OS X ]] (port 548) and provides a convenient way for mounting your [[WSO ]] [[home directory ]] directly to the Finder. To connect to WSO via AFP, all you need to do is go to Go menu in the Finder, select Connect to Server from the pull down menu, type wso.williams.edu in the box that pops up, and hit return. A login window will appear prompting you for your username and password. There is also an Options section that allows you to specify whether or not you want to use a secure connection. You In general, you should check the box to use [[SSH]] (but see the note below). After you enter this information and hit return, your home directory will mount, and you'll be able to use it as if it were on your local filesystem.

Note: If you're using OS X 10.4 or later and you specify that you want to use SSH for AFP connections, OS X may give you an error and tell you that "The server 'ursula' does not support secure connections via SSH." This problem is not specific to WSO and a similar failure to detect SSH capabilities has been reproduced by Apple's support team on one of their boxes. We are currently awaiting a response from Apple on how aware of the issue but need to schedule some downtime to rectify fix the problem. In Until the meantimeproblem is fixed, you can can still login by clicking just click continue, provided you're okay with transmitting your information in clear text. If you're not on the "Continue" button in the error dialog boxcampus, a better option would be to use an [[SFTP]] client.