I'm not sure why SMB is any more "bogus" than NFS, since both have security reputations that should make their respective creators wince. Regardless, SMB is the lowest common denominator. Everything (even NetWare, for crying out loud) now speaks SMB.
-----Original Message----- From: Bill Campbell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, March 11, 2002 9:46 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: iMAC and Linux On Mon, Mar 11, 2002 at 11:32:14AM -0500, M. Peck Dickens wrote: >On Monday 11 March 2002 12:22, you wrote to me: >> It should come with Mac OS X, which handles smb by default. DHCP and >> other non-MS network stuff work fine. > >Well, it ought'a... OS X is BSD Unix that's been tweaked. Given that, why would one want to use bogus file sharing like SMB when NFS is available? Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC UUCP: camco!bill PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way FAX: (206) 232-9186 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820; (206) 236-1676 URL: http://www.celestial.com/ ``the purpose of government is to reign in the rights of the people'' -Bill Clinton during an interview on MTV in 1993 _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL. _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
