Plus samba is built into OSX already. No need to install it.
Chris Jones
On Oct 2, 2010, at 12:18 PM, "Jeremy (mailing list account)" <listbox@unix-boy.com> wrote:
> On 10/2/2010 9:36 AM, Petri Laihonen wrote:
>> I think out of the major 3 bunch, OS X is the most difficult to use. A
>> friend of mine wanted samba in his mac and installing it turned into a
>> dependency hell. Nothing user friendly there. Next thing was to attempt
>> via package manager. No luck there either. (Or I did not find the good ones)
>>
>
> I'm going to ask this dumb ass question because I really am curious...
>
> Why would you need or want to install Samba on OS X? The system already has a built CIFS client and can easy be joined to an Active Directory domain straight out of the box. Was there some sort of functionality your friend was looking for?
>
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