osx-fbsd-winxp

Garrett Cooper youshi10 at u.washington.edu
Mon Sep 19 11:55:30 PDT 2005


jonas wrote:

>hi!
>
>On Sun, 18 Sep 2005 18:08:20 +0200
>Dick Hoogendijk <dick at nagual.st> wrote:
>
>[snip]
>  
>
>>Right. ;-) That one is easy.. But the share needs to be on the fbsd
>>machine then. Can I also share parts of the XP / OSX to each other or
>>will this be hard to do. My daughter is on osx, her brother on xp and
>>they do not always want me (fbsd) in the middle ;-)
>>    
>>
>
>as osx is based on freebsd... is mount_smbfs still present? if so,
>one of the easiest ways should be to share a folder on the windows
>machine and the mount it from the osx box (see: man mount_smbfs).
>
>alternatively you could install a nfs client (nfsAxe is one i recall) on
>the windows box and use NFS to share files. 
>i would prefer this one, since i don't like smb.
>
>after all, why are _you_ trying to find out, how your kids can keep
>things secret from you? let them figure out :-P
>
>greetz,
>jonas
>
    Although MacOSX is FreeBSD based, it's somewhat dangerous to deal 
with the non-GUI based UI junk as the Unix commands don't tie into the 
OS very well, IMO.
    That was the only sad thing about OSX for me I discovered, but Apple 
probably thought that people would like to connect to servers via the 
GUI method more than the CLI based command =\.
    If you need scriptability, there're always Applescript and the 
Automator in 10.4 that ties in with Apple's stuff quite nicely.
-Garrett


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