On Mon, 09 May 2022 04:10:01 +0200 Charles Curley <charlescur...@charlescurley.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 09 May 2022 01:31:35 +0200 > Hussein Yahia <h.ya...@orange.fr> wrote: > >> What exactly do you mean by "connect"? SSH? ping? If you mean via >> SMB, that suggests you successfully set the Linux computer up as >> an SMB server. Did you? >> >> I don't remeber to have installed smb on my Linux. I just downloaded >> the packages. On the mac, I click on the Linux Desktop'name, (which >> appears in any window), a window appears, I can login in the Desktop >> Linux with my name and password, and I see my files, when I'm on the >> mac. > > I should probably clarify: SMB (Service Message Block) is the > protocol, originally from IBM, later Microsoft. Samba is a server > and client suite of programs for Linux and Unix that implement SMB. > Microsoft has its own suite. Apple has at least a client. SMB is > also known as CIFS (Common Internet File System, I think). Another alternative is NFS. When my wife wants to get at my music library, she runs a script I put on her Mac to do an NFS mount on my Linux box. -- cgi...@surfnaked.ca (Charlie Gibbs)