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Connect to a file server

"Mac OS classic" and Mac OS X allow a number of different ways to connect to file servers. File servers provide network-based storage space for your documents. Most file servers you use with your Mac will probably provide "afp over tcp/ip", which is the basic file service protocol -- or networking language -- used by Macs.

No matter which recent version of Mac OS you are using, we have instructions for you:

No matter how you connect to a file server, it's helpful to know how to use File server addresses.