I see some file browsing clients for iOS advertise support for CIFS. Samba has always bored me and I remember no end of interoperability troubles with macs or win PCs in the old days.
CIFS is what Apple uses by default nowadays. It's not bug free, but certainly better supported (and faster?) than netatalk.
Would you choose webdav or CIFS as file sharing protocol for an iPad?
I never bothered to install anything but CIFS. I'm running a CentOS based server, Mac, Windows, iOS and Android devices. All access it just fine. I must admit that some non-ASCII characters got broken a few years ago during some Samba or client update. But IMHO it's a thing of the past nowadays.
If CIFS, should I let go of Netatalk and replace it with Samba, even for desktop users?
Please note that iirc you can't use a CIFS share for Timemachine. I might be wrong. But other than that I've never missed netatalk.
FWIW: I've been using Stratospherix FileBrowser on iOS for several years. It's actively developed, changes its icon every few months, but has been very useful to me whenever I needed to access a file on my server (incl. photos, movies etc.)
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