[FX.php List] [off-topic] A Windows question...

[Kevin Futter]

On 11/5/07 4:12 AM, "Bob Patin" <bob at patin.com> wrote:

> Here's a question that I think I can already answer, but:
> 
> In my brief stint on the Windows platform, I never connected to a
> Mac's drive. Is it possible, without any extra software, for a PC
> user to mount a Mac drive remotely?
> 
> I have a potential client for whom I may colocate a server, but she
> needs to mount it remotely, as will others in her office. It has
> suddenly dawned on me that I use Mac servers, and her office is
> probably filled with PCs. The server I'd use here wouldn't be an
> Intel Mac, by the way.
> 
> Is it possible for a PC user to mount a Mac drive across the
> Internet? I'm assuming it's not possible, but perhaps I'm missing
> something...
> 
> Thanks,
> 

Bob, SMB (Samba) is probably your best bet. OS X has support built in, but
I'm not sure how it works on XP (I suspect there's native support for it
though, as I seem to remember using it before on my mixed platform home
network without doing anything special).

-- 
Kevin Futter
Webmaster, St. Bernard's College
http://www.sbc.melb.catholic.edu.au/



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