For general usage, no. The SMB client is supposed to provide
indistinguishable functionality to the AFP client. Off the top of
my head, I can't think of a case where you would run into problems.
--- I would beg to differ here. As above, I open up two finder
windows (an AFP mount, and an SMB mount of the same server). The
collection of files I examine are on a group-use server, and they
are created by a mixed bag of Windows XP and various OSX clients.
When looking via the SMB mount I see a significant number of Word
documents with incorrect icons, but which appear fine on the AFP
mount. Most of the photoshop files that have nice thumbnail
previews as their icon on AFP have only generic icons on the SMB
mount.
To end users, these icon and document-type issues make a difference.
I would be very careful about mixing connections with both SMB and
AFP. The problem lies in that AFP supports resource fork and extended
attribute connections, and over an SMB link MacOS X has to fake it
with a second (hidden ._) file. If you move back and forth across the
connection types this information will get a bit messed up.
This is the reason why you are seeing the icon differences between
the two.
And I have not done any testing, but have always heard that Apple's
AFP performance is slightly better than their SMB performance.
