MacOS X comes with a CIFS client that works with our filers running 6.0.1R3.
To use it just get into the "Finder" and go to the "Go" menu and use "Connect to Server". At the "Address:" text entry type
smb://filer.host.name/share
And you are prompted for your CIFS loginid and password.
I've run into two annoyances.
1) MacOS does not appear to reconnect if a session goes idle. Looks like it's still connected, but nothing works. From a Unix window, df indicates that the share is not mounted. So you have to disconnect by dragging and dropping the icon representing the CIFS share into the wastebasket and connect again.
2) If you drag and drop a file into your CIFS share, you get an annoying dialog box that says:
Sorry, the operation could not be completed because an unexpected error occurred (Error Code -50).
And in /etc/messages on the filer you see this:
Thu Nov 1 16:03:03 EST [home1: FastEnet-10/100/e0:CRITICAL]: CIFS t2 request 6 not implemented debuginfo( 1 39 7a D-128-13-59) ^^^^^^^^^^^ hostname of my mac
The file copies just fine, so you can just ignore the error. But you can't drag and drop entire folders because of this. Anyone have any idea what's up?
Other stuff works fine, such as Unix commands from a Unix window. Looks like a viable solution for Mac users who want to use a filer.
Steve Losen scl@virginia.edu phone: 434-924-0640
University of Virginia ITC Unix Support