[linux-audio-user] RE: mounting network drives for dummies?

[R Parker]

Hi,

--- Maarten de Boer <mdeboer at iua.upf.es> wrote:

> i am accessing files shared with samba by macosx
> from linux without any
> problem. 

Does samba create shares that Mac9 can mount?

I haven't looked at Samba during the last four years.
I think it was windows shares only back then. I've
always used atalk and netatalk which has a long
standing bug that causes Mac to not see available
space above 1.2Gb, or something close to that. As you
can imagine that's a real PITA.

ron

you won't need the hfsplus. i don't
> remember what i did to set
> it up at the mac site (and i don't have a monitor
> attached right now),
> but i am quite sure it was the basic stuff as
> explained in the help.
> 
> how are you mounting the samba share on the linux
> side? my guess is that
> you don't specify the user id that the mounted share
> should have on the
> linux side.
> 
> if my linux users' uid is 1021, and i want to mount
> the homedir of user
> mdeboer on the mac, with hostname the_mac:
> 
> mount -t smbfs -o username=mdeboer,uid=1021
> //the_mac/mdeboer /mnt/mac
> 
> maarten


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