At long (censored) last....
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From: Uk
Hey, thanks cattletruck! If it wasn't for the advice and encouragement here, I think I would have given up (well, I very nearly did). At first I was prepared to accept just a one way share but I was niggled at the Win 7 to Mac sharing failing. Found that article just in time.
I want to configure the firewall to allow the connection. New to this as well, so be prepared for some daft questions after I've had a gander at the options.....
I want to configure the firewall to allow the connection. New to this as well, so be prepared for some daft questions after I've had a gander at the options.....
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From: Bracknell, Berks, UK
Nope, never even been to Oz. I got hold of Samba in 1995 as we looked at a massive rollout of Windows 95 PCs (60,000 in '95) to replace Apple Macs at Nortel. At the time, we were known for our 'generic fileservers' (as we used Sun servers with PC-NFS and Apple software to create an interoperable multiplatform/multiprotocol server), and I knew that PC-NFS was clunky, memory-hungry and slow. So we looked at Samba (which was relatively new at the time), and soon found out that the browsemastering code wasn't designed properly for multi-subnet use. Luckily, the guy who wrote the original Samba browsemastering code was only half an hour away on the train, and i'd done loads of work in the WinNT arena at that time to define browsemastering, so we spent company expenses to bring him down on a weekend and 3 of us brainstormed the way to fix that specific issue at the Nortel labs in Harlow...which made it's way into all subsequent releases from there on.
Shame Windows95's browse kernel wasn't big enough for our browse lists after all that, but hey.
Shame Windows95's browse kernel wasn't big enough for our browse lists after all that, but hey.
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From: Mesopotamos
Good ol' winsock and win95. We did something similar using a mere 2500 PCs with Novell shared storage over 40 IP subnets. IPX/IP was quite stable although we had to fudge the routers to get broadcast SPX packets across.
PC-NFS didn't scale too well and SunOS nfs was tempermental, never considered samba, however Novell file sharing was pretty good only to be let down by its self corrupting Networked Directory Services database.
I also vaguely recall you could create a static browser list in NT land as computers had a mysterious habit of dissappearing off the list.
PC-NFS didn't scale too well and SunOS nfs was tempermental, never considered samba, however Novell file sharing was pretty good only to be let down by its self corrupting Networked Directory Services database.
I also vaguely recall you could create a static browser list in NT land as computers had a mysterious habit of dissappearing off the list.
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Nope, never even been to Oz. ... <SNIP> .... .which made it's way into all subsequent releases from there on.
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From: Bracknell, Berks, UK
As with anything, you get yourself in a massive pickle if you start hardcoding things in lists hidden in the depths of computers. I tend to try and avoid it at all costs.
This, in the early '90s, was met usually with blank looks.
It was also quite amusing to be in training courses where a trainer would spend some time explaining class C and B networks, and then would argue vociferously with us when we pointed out we held two class A networks at the time.
Happy days
