networking printer with brothers Windows machine.

[Kevin Fries]

On Mon, 2011-11-21 at 09:54 -0700, Derek Trotter wrote:
> So there shouldn't be any problem making the mac talk to everything
> else on the network.  The mac uses samba.  The linux box does too.
> The mac and the linux box understand cups.  Am I right in my
> understanding that the Mac os is just BSD unix with the apple gui
> running on top of it?

Essentially,  So Mac will natively understand Cups and NFS.  Cups many
years ago was maintained by HP (though for some reason it kills them to
admit it), but was taken over by Apple.  Apple not only talks the open
printing protocol, it is the corporate sponsor, last I saw, and
therefore was essentially maintaining it.

Apple system and Linux systems are in some ways very simpatico with one
another, and in other ways very adversarial.  In a network environment,
Apple prefers Apache for web serving, Postfix for mail delivery, and
LDAP for central user authentication (though there is another central
admin service, Apple generally prefers LDAP).

Apple achieves this level of Linux harmony because at it heart, is a
core derived from NextSTEP which was in turn derived from large portions
of FreeBSD and NetBSD.  All the more reason why Apples antagonistic
behavior torwards Linux is puzzling.  When going to battle in market
dominance with Microsoft, you would thing they would do more to embrace
its brother, not diminish it...  But a brother it is, and therefore,
many of its systems come from the exact same parentage.

Kevin