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Samba Under OS X?

Posted by Cliff on from the ubiquitous-smb-service-for-all-OSes dept.

iriefrank asks: "Thursby Software announced it will demonstrate a Mac OS X version of its popular DAVE filesharing software. It will include peer-to-peer file and print sharing between PCs and Macs, but now that Mac OS has UNIX underpinnings (and uses BSD networking), could one easily port SAMBA to OS X?" Just to be fair, could someone familiar with DAVE let us know if it offers anything more than what one can get with SAMBA?

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  1. Samba is being used on OS X by Crewd · · Score: 4

    Check out these two urls that explain how to use samba on OS X :

    http://osx.macnn.com/features/installsamba.phtml
    http://www2.kenyon.edu/people/shankb/samba/

  2. DAVE is not recommended by jbridges · · Score: 3

    Want to copy a couple files across the network? DAVE might be fine.

    Want to actually run software across the network? Or GASP, actually access files, maybe do cross development with CodeWarrior?

    Forget DAVE! Dave is not industrial strength, Dave is flakey, Dave is not ready for prime time.

    (by the way, ever try and search Usenet or the web for info on a product with a name so freakin common that you can't find anything? Imagine if Linux was called "John", BLEAH!)

    I pounded on the Apple reps at a OSX developer conference in June, they knew nothing about Samba, still towing the "we support cross platform networking" when that basicly means TCP/IP and oh by the way, if you want to share files, use AppleTalk. Some other developers stood up and said people had gotten Samba to run on OSX. But that's not exactly nice and friendly, and built into the pretty little interface, is it?

    The saving grace at this point is the pretty decent Appletalk support over TCP/IP built into Win2000. Without it, cross platform file access from a Mac to Windows would be pretty grim...