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Mac OS X: Another View | |
| Subject: | Network to my PC ... How's That? | |
| Date: | 2001-04-18 13:27:18 | |
| From: | derrick | |
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Here's a note I received via e-mail --DS:
In reference to #11: "I don't have to purchase Dave or PCMacLan to network to my PC."
-- Steven B. Wolff
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Network to my PC ... How's That?
2001-04-19 00:42:05 oreillynet20000 [Reply | View]
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Network to my PC ... How's That?
2001-04-19 19:41:44 pyrrho [Reply | View]
But I believe the gist of the original point was that a user doesn't have to install a 3rd party solution in order to connect to a Windows machine. Or maybe it was just that a user doesn't have to resort to a commercial 3rd party solution (as both items that you listed were shareware or open source).
(i) Download the open-source Samba and compile it yourself and use the command-line tools to mount and unmount SMB/CIFS disks from PC hosts
(ii) Download and test the commercial OS X app Sharity (search versiontracker.com for info), a CIFS client with GUI that plugs into the Network part of the Finder.
Either options are satisfactory.
Ian