[linux-cifs-client] osx-cifs-client ?

Jeremy Allison jra at samba.org
Thu Mar 3 19:24:43 GMT 2005


On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 01:22:33PM -0600, Timothee Besset wrote:
> Kinda off-topic, but I figure it would be a good place to ask. Does 
> anyone know if there is developement on CIFS clients for OSX?
> 
> I have found two commercial solutions [1], which I might go with 
> eventually. I am wondering if there is a truly open source alternative 
> somewhere?

OSX contains a *native* CIFS client. Apple work on and maintain
this code (plus I believe they release it in Darwin).

They've gone over to the dark side though in that their shiny
new *BSD kernel is getting ever more Windows like in features
and less and less friendly to POSIX apps :-).

Jeremy.


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