Re: [TCLUG:11239] Appletalk

[Adam Maloney <adam@iexposure.com>]

As far as I can tell there is no built-in SMB client for mac.  There's a
few things like Dave and such, but from what I've seen most people use
NT's built-in Appletalk support.

Brent Metzler wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 16 Dec 1999, Adam Maloney wrote:
> 
> > NT or redhat.  I would certainly not want to run redhat as a server, so
> > I was able to force the install to run on slackware.  It's not open
> > source, it only supports glibc under linux, not libc5
> 
> This is certainly not relevant, but what is the disadvantage of using Red
> Hat as a server.  In my case, I am using Debian, so I am not partial to
> Red Hat, however, the company I work for will be hopefully running their
> databases on Red Hat, and I don't see any reason to push a different
> distro over Redhat if that is what the vendor recommends.
> 
> > NFS clients for mac, but  1 of them was bought by Ascend, and then
> > lucent - who have abandonded it.  The others have all been abandoned as
> > well.  I haven't found a single one that I could actually download and
> > use yet.  I was able to find a list of them, and I checked each one out
> > and none of them are supported anymore.  We are all finding it very hard
> > to believe that no companies are developing anything like this right
> > now.  With the recent explosion in popularity for the mac (with the
> > iwhack and such) there should be more demand for mac/unix connectivity.
> 
> This is probably a silly question, but doesn'tMacOS have an SMB client?
> If not, how does it read files from an NT server?
> 
> -Brent
> 
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Adam Maloney
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Internet Exposure, Inc.