Windoze file-sharing has never been part of the MacOS. You are thinking of either TCP file sharing (which has been round for a while) or a 3rd party product.
cheers, Paul Andrew Sharp said at ÒRe: [OT] Network file sharingÓ. [13/Jul/01Fri 21:22] > Ethan Benson wrote: > > > > On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 08:59:05PM +1000, Steven Hanley wrote: > > > > > > admittedly I and you both avoid macos to the extent of not > having it installed > > > or never booting into it, however I am pretty sure apple had to > bow into the > > > pressure annd make their desktop support the msot common > network file system > > > setup found in the corporate world a few years ago. I could > boot into macos to > > > confirm this but Ireally dont want ot. Every mac I have seen at > uni has > > > support for windows file sharing, and I am pretty sure it is > standard in macos > > > now days. (anyone else care to comment?) > > > > if it was it was VERY well hidden, i never saw any evidence of > such a > > thing in all varients of OS8 (which is what i used before dumping > > macos) or in 9.0 or 9.1 which i only breifly tinkered with. > > > > > I seem to remmber windows file sharing being available in the > chooser or > > > whatever it is, and SMB printing also works from a standard > macos install so > > > hey. > > > > not in any MacOS i have ever seen. the proprietary, expensive > > commercial addon adds things to the chooser... (dave i think its > called.) > > I think the mac's we had last year could do it, but it didn't > matter, we never tried to use it, because we had netatalk file > sharing up and working with printing working great in less than an > hour. God bless Apple for using postscript. The windoze boxes and > laptops had to wait three whole days for all the problems with SMB > file sharing and printing to be ironed out. The problems and bugs > turned out to be all these boxes and laptops running the "same" > windows98, but acting totally differently. Even sailors don't curse > like IT managers supporting windows, I know because I am/was both. > > a > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > |------- |www.tough.net.au |____________ -- get tough ---- get toughmail --
