On Oct 12, 2014, at 7:25, Dan McGhee <beesn...@grm.net> wrote: > I want to ultimately use all my external and salvaged hard drives on both my > (soon to be completely) linux laptop and my iMac. That part is simple. Back > up what I don't want to lose and then reformat those drives.
For over a decade, I’ve had windows, OS X, Solaris, and Linux environment and would use samba for all of it. However, if you are scrapping windows, there is bonjour you can use with OS X and linux. Bonjour (zeroconf) is what you may want if only needing to deal with a linux OS and Mac OS X. Now, if you ever need to use windows, you can install a bonjour client for that, as well. There’s nothing wrong with using Samba and linux kernel’s CIFS between Mac OS X and Linux, but if you aren’t going to have a Windows machine involved, no need. No need to have that and a samba server configured for WINS either. Keep it simple and use only what you need. Bonjour (zeroconf), or use some of what others have stated. I use an iMac, powerbook, multiple windows machines, and multiple linux machines with samba just fine. You have it quite a bit simpler, so you may want to investigate what I have mentioned with bonjour. Sincerely, William Harrington -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
