Thanks Felix - I'll try searching in the SMB/CIFS universe for the latest Mac OS X compatible version.
On Wednesday, January 06, 2010, at 02:09PM, "Felix Miata" <[email protected]> wrote: >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 >-- >"Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious >people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any >other." John Adams, 2nd US President > > Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 > >Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ >-- >To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the >instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba > > -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
