Re: Mac OS/X and Linux

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Author: Chris Gehlker
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Subject: Re: Mac OS/X and Linux

On Sep 26, 2007, at 7:41 AM, Lynn Newton wrote:

> Yes, but it's a bit tricky the first time through it.
> I can't comment specifically about Samba because I've
> never done it myself, but I'm sure it works.


But he wants the Macs to be *clients* and the Linux box to server the
Samba share, right? In this case he doesn't need to do anything.
>
> Mac OS X doesn't make use of /etc/fstab.
>
> There's a shareware app called NFS Manager that leads you
> through the stuff you need to do to export NFS file systems
> or to mount them from other systems. Like most sysadmin
> oriented graphical apps, this is just a front end for
> doing whatever an appropriately informed sysadmin would
> do by hand. But that's also its advantage. It's quick
> and easy.


When I had to use a Mac as a server I just enabled Samba from the GUI
with System Preferences->Sharing and then the Windows Sharing box.
Then I used SWAT to edit the samba config file. This worked fine.

I found all the Samba docs in /usr/share/swat.
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