Can the mac O/S access a samba share through the chooser

[Martyn Ranyard]

What you need is not SAMBA, but netatalk, which does appletalk on unix, 
therefore being native mac.  The server then sees it as a mac server.

At 09:15 AM 1/8/02 -0500, Michael LaSalvia wrote:
>Up to now we never had a need to have macs access our fileserver. The macs 
>can ssh and ftp to our fileserver but not see it in the chooser (the macs 
>version of network neighborhood ). So I was wondering is there a mac 
>application for the application layer of networking to allow the mac to 
>see the samba share. I know is Mac O/S 10 you can use the command line and 
>use the smb mount command and do it over tcp/ip. But I want them to be 
>able to just click a shortcut on their desktop.  Thanks for the help.
>
>Sorry If I confused you but I don't use macs so I really don't understand 
>them.
>Michael LaSalvia
>Information Technology Coordinator
>The JASON Foundation for Education
>11 Second Avenue
>Needham Heights, MA 02494
>(Tel) 781-444-8858 ext. 231
>(Fax) 781-444-8313
>Web: <http://www.jasonproject.org>http://www.jasonproject.org

Martyn

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