Samba Under OS X? 8
iriefrank asks: "Thursby Software announced it will demonstrate a Mac OS X version of its popular DAVE filesharing software. It will include peer-to-peer file and print sharing between PCs and Macs, but now that Mac OS has UNIX underpinnings (and uses BSD networking), could one easily port SAMBA to OS X?" Just to be fair, could someone familiar with DAVE let us know if it offers anything more than what one can get with SAMBA?
Samba is being used on OS X (Score:4)
http://osx.macnn.com/features/installsamba.phtm
http://www2.kenyon.edu/people/shankb/samba/
What about NFS? (Score:1)
Re:What about NFS? (Score:1)
http://macweek.zdnet.co m/2 000/10/29/1103jcwosx2unix.html [zdnet.com]
Dave != Samba. And Samba on OS X is okay, but... (Score:2)
Samba is primarily an SMB fileserver, and mostly overlaps with Dave in its ability to act as an SMB print client, and on a few OSes can also act as an SMB file-access client via smbmount.
OS X can run Appleshare IP Server, a package that can also act as an SMB fileserver, and has nice admin tools for doing so.
Beyond open-source religious issues and the nominal cost of Appleshare IP Server, the main reasons to run Samba on OS X are as follows:
DAVE is not recommended (Score:3)
Want to actually run software across the network? Or GASP, actually access files, maybe do cross development with CodeWarrior?
Forget DAVE! Dave is not industrial strength, Dave is flakey, Dave is not ready for prime time.
(by the way, ever try and search Usenet or the web for info on a product with a name so freakin common that you can't find anything? Imagine if Linux was called "John", BLEAH!)
I pounded on the Apple reps at a OSX developer conference in June, they knew nothing about Samba, still towing the "we support cross platform networking" when that basicly means TCP/IP and oh by the way, if you want to share files, use AppleTalk. Some other developers stood up and said people had gotten Samba to run on OSX. But that's not exactly nice and friendly, and built into the pretty little interface, is it?
The saving grace at this point is the pretty decent Appletalk support over TCP/IP built into Win2000. Without it, cross platform file access from a Mac to Windows would be pretty grim...
samba/dave (Score:1)
Dave is not hip (Score:1)
On the odd occasion I need to transfer files to a PC, I just install the demo version of PCMacLan from Miramar. Transfers are much faster, and the demo has a time out of 180 mins (3 hours!!!).
So, given that Dave was useless to me, I doubt they can come out with something useful for OS X. Being that Mac is big on GUI, I'm sure someone will come up with some implementation of Samba that will make it transparent in OS X.
Re:Dave != Samba. And Samba on OS X is okay, but.. (Score:1)
My other half does desktop publishing on Mac and on Windows. She scans on one machine. She has Mac text she needs to transfer to Windows and vice versa. She needs to open Win Pagemaker files in Mac and vice versa...
We will be trying Samba / OS X in order to have a little less noise in the living room (no file server running 24/24...)
Both OS print native to the Laserjet.
The windows machine double boots into Linux for connecting to the outside world (it is forbidden to use Windows on the Internet at home for obvious reasons) and burning CD-Roms.
After a weekend with OS X I think that Apple may have a winner.