[PLUG] OS X and SMB

[Kelly Guimont]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: plug-admin at lists.pdxlinux.org
> [mailto:plug-admin at lists.pdxlinux.org] On Behalf Of Paul Heinlein
> Sent: Tuesday, September 24, 2002 11:16 AM
> To: plug at lists.pdxlinux.org
> Subject: RE: [PLUG] Now THIS is funny
> 
> On Tue, 24 Sep 2002, Chris wrote:
> 
>> Has anyone had any luck with OS X and SMB support?  I ask only
>> because of the BSD foundation...I've been trying to get it work on a
>> small LAN, no luck
> 
> I've had no trouble. Just open the service finder thingee (Cmd K? my
> memory fails me) and do
> 
> smb://host.name/sharename
> 
> Typically, you'll be prompted for a username, which should be entered
> in the standard smb format:
> 
> domain\username
> 
> The problem for us hasn't been the connections but the bloomin'
> faux-stream files that Macs insist on littering around the filesystem.
> [Grumble, grumble]
> 
> --Paul Heinlein <heinlein at attbi.com>

Ooh! Ooh! This one I know! Depending on how you're trying to set up the
connection, osx already has a built in samba client. If you want to connect
to the osx machine as a server, you need to install Samba Server (which you
can find at: http://sourceforge.net/projects/xamba/ ), which I know hides
the mac specific files (.DS_Store, anyone?) with a little checkbox option.

Is anyone interested in a how-to on this? I know a lot about it, having set
up my Mac as a fileserver (via samba) so my husband's Wintendo could connect
to it. I don't see a lot of osx questions around here, is it because
nobody's using it or just that everyone's a Darwin master and doesn't have a
need to talk about it? Hmmm...

-Kelly

Would it help if I got out and pushed? It might!