On 5/1/02 3:29 PM, "Randy Boring" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Pre-warning, I'm biased, as I work for Thursby Software Systems, Inc. > I'll keep that in mind. :) > Samba is mostly a server, so it's not likely that you really want to > mount _via_ Samba, you probably want to mount a Samba volume via an SMB > or CIFS client. Actually, the Samba package does include a way to mount > a filesystem as a client, but I don't believe that this works on OS X. > (They also include a rudimentary command-line client, which I don't > believe you want.) Apple does ship an smb client with OS X, but yes it > has problems, only one of which is being limited to one mount at a time. > (Lack of browsing the network is another.) > I agree that Apple's current smb implementation has problems, especially the lack of browsing capabilities, but it does NOT have a problem mounting more than one share at a time - I do this on a regular basis. I know you have a product to sell but lets keep it truthful. :) You were probably thinking about the competing product Sharity (from Objective Development), which in it's demo form only allows one mount at a time (but has very nice browsing capabilities). > DAVE, on the other hand, is a robust client (and server if you want), > which can connect to many shares at once, handles FAT and NTFS volumes > and servers of many kinds (Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2K/XP and many UNIX-based > servers including Samba servers). To answer your question, it also > supports mounting via AppleScript. > I will agree with you that Dave was a great product on OS 9 - I don't really have much experience with it on OS X, beyond one of the first betas. Ian
