From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 8 23:42:13 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8891737B401 for ; Tue, 8 Jul 2003 23:42:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from out004.verizon.net (out004pub.verizon.net [206.46.170.142]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A4B2D43F85 for ; Tue, 8 Jul 2003 23:42:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from mac.com ([141.149.47.46]) by out004.verizon.net (InterMail vM.5.01.05.33 201-253-122-126-133-20030313) with ESMTP id <20030709064209.FEHF14849.out004.verizon.net@mac.com> for ; Wed, 9 Jul 2003 01:42:09 -0500 Message-ID: <3F0BB93C.9070903@mac.com> Date: Wed, 09 Jul 2003 02:42:04 -0400 From: Chuck Swiger Organization: The Courts of Chaos User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <000001c345d0$227e4300$1d02a8c0@kids> <20030708224159.A10335@barryg.mi.celestial.com> In-Reply-To: <20030708224159.A10335@barryg.mi.celestial.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.76.1.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Authentication-Info: Submitted using SMTP AUTH at out004.verizon.net from [141.149.47.46] at Wed, 9 Jul 2003 01:42:08 -0500 cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Samba between Mac and BSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 09 Jul 2003 06:42:13 -0000 Bill Campbell wrote: > On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 09:11:11PM -0700, esayer1@san.rr.com wrote: >> FreeBSD Question Answerer- >> First of all thank you for your help and time. I have a question about >>running a Samba server where the server is a FreeBSD machine and the client >>is a Macintosh ibook running max os X. ... > > I would think that NFS would be a better choice between two Unix > systems than Samba. Maybe. MacOS X has very well integrated Samba support into the Finder; Windows filesharing integration is/was a higher priority than NFS. NFS perhaps is easier to configure than Samba, though-- which might matter to the OP. -- -Chuck