Article:		Mac OS X: Another View
Subject:		Network to my PC ... How's That?
Date:		2001-04-19 00:42:05
From:		oreillynet20000
Response to: Network to my PC ... How's That?
Well, you have two options... (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

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• Network to my PC ... How's That?
  2001-04-19 19:41:44  pyrrho [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).
• Network to my PC ... How's That?
  2001-06-12 05:16:18  chrisridd [View]
  
  
  Samba comes pre-installed on X Server, but not X. Perhaps the author is confusing the two.