Mac Dave<->smbclient - Status ?

[George Colley]

We will be at the Plugfest testing our 3.0 code.
George

On Thursday, August 2, 2001, at 02:08 PM, Conrad Minshall wrote:

> DAVE is from Thursby software.  I believe they will be at the CIFS
> conference/plugfest later this month.  Perhaps you can debug this then.
>
> cc to George at Thursby
>
> At 8:48 AM -0700 8/2/01, Urban Widmark wrote:
>> On Thu, 2 Aug 2001, Ulf Bertilsson wrote:
>>
>>> --Answer-----------------------------------------
>>
>> What was the question? Oh, it's from the FAQ.
>> (and the Q is "Does smbmount on Samba work with DAVE Sharing?")
>>
>>> The smbclient allows clients to connect to Samba as a server and the
>>> smbmount connects to the Windows computers as if Samba is the client.
>>> We've done extensive testing with DAVE Client connecting to Samba as a
>>> server and we support this type of connection.  Unfortunately, 
>>> smbmount
>>> is
>>> only available with Linux and DAVE does not support this connection at
>>> this
>>> time.  In the future, we may work with the developers of Samba to test
>>> smbmount with DAVE Sharing to allow the two products to function
>>> together
>>> completely.
>>> -------------------------------------------------
>>>
>>> Anyone comment this ? :)
>>
>> They don't say anything about if smbclient works with Dave as a server,
>> but then that was not the question. But it seems like they 
>> misunderstand
>> what smbclient is.
>>
>> "In the future, we may ..." is nice and non-commiting. :)
>>
>>
>> Btw, if someone wants smbmount/smbfs to work with DAVE they will have 
>> to
>> do something about it. Myself, I don't have access to any Macs (or 
>> Linux
>> boxes with access to a Mac), nor do I have DAVE to play with.
>>
>> tcpdumps of smbclient/smbmount/smbfs <-> DAVE, and comparing them with
>> NT <-> DAVE could be useful.
>>
>> /Urban
>
>
>
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> Conrad Minshall, conrad at apple.com, 408 974-2749
> Apple Computer, Mac OS X Core Operating Systems
>
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