On 2010/01/06 12:44 (GMT-0500) Mick Mueck composed:
> I'm a Mac user working in a company that is PC and Linux dominated. I have a
> Mac at work and I funnel everything through it. I mount my Linux box onto my
> Mac using Samba, and navigate it's filesystem through the Finder and run
> programs on it while displaying all the X-windows back to my Mac. It all
> works very well, except for several annoying issues pertaining to Samba e.g.
> mounts often lock up, I can't copy a file into my own Linux hierarchy because
> it says my Linux machine has no space left (which is not right). I'm guessing
> this is all the Mac's fault due to it's version or implementation of Samba.
> Apple is not very good at supporting/updating this kind of thing.
> On macupdate.com I note that samba 3.4.3 is available for the Mac, but:
> 1. Unlike pretty much every other platform, there is no prebuilt
> binary/installer for the Mac.
> 2. It seems to be a server only and I'm guessing I just need a client.
> Assuming my Samba issues are all on the Mac side, does anyone have a
> recommendation about upgrading my machine to something better in the Samba
> department - I'm running the latest 10.6 Snow Leopard operating system.
> Please bear in mind that I'm just a 'user' and a genuine fish out of water
> when it comes to manually building a software installation ('make' and
> library linking etc).
Answer by OS/2 user:
Actually, Samba is server only. Client for using Samba shares has been called
CIFS (on Linux at least; previously SMB) for a couple of years or more. Have
you looked for a precompiled and/or updated CIFS for Mac?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cifs
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