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  Re: Networking pb Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@surfnaked.ca> - 2022-05-09 07:30 +0200

#248032 — Re: Networking pb

On Mon, 09 May 2022 04:10:01 +0200 Charles Curley
<charlescurley@charlescurley.com> wrote:

 > On Mon, 09 May 2022 01:31:35 +0200
 > Hussein Yahia <h.yahia@orange.fr> wrote:
 >
 >> What exactly do you mean by "connect"? SSH? ping? If you mean via
 >> SMB, that suggests you successfully set the Linux computer up as
 >> an SMB server. Did you?
 >>
 >> I don't remeber to have installed smb on my Linux. I just downloaded
 >> the packages. On the mac, I click on the Linux Desktop'name, (which
 >> appears in any window), a window appears, I can login in the Desktop
 >> Linux with my name and password, and I see my files, when I'm on the
 >> mac.
 >
 > I should probably clarify: SMB (Service Message Block) is the
 > protocol, originally from IBM, later Microsoft. Samba is a server
 > and client suite of programs for Linux and Unix that implement SMB.
 > Microsoft has its own suite. Apple has at least a client. SMB is
 > also known as CIFS (Common Internet File System, I think).

Another alternative is NFS.  When my wife wants to get at my music
library, she runs a script I put on her Mac to do an NFS mount on
my Linux box.

-- 
cgibbs@surfnaked.ca (Charlie Gibbs)

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