Re: Networking pb
On Mon, 09 May 2022 04:10:01 +0200 Charles Curley
<charlescurley@charlescurley.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 09 May 2022 01:31:35 +0200
> Hussein Yahia <h.yahia@orange.fr> wrote:
>
>> What exactly do you mean by "connect"? SSH? ping? If you mean via
>> SMB, that suggests you successfully set the Linux computer up as
>> an SMB server. Did you?
>>
>> I don't remeber to have installed smb on my Linux. I just downloaded
>> the packages. On the mac, I click on the Linux Desktop'name, (which
>> appears in any window), a window appears, I can login in the Desktop
>> Linux with my name and password, and I see my files, when I'm on the
>> mac.
>
> I should probably clarify: SMB (Service Message Block) is the
> protocol, originally from IBM, later Microsoft. Samba is a server
> and client suite of programs for Linux and Unix that implement SMB.
> Microsoft has its own suite. Apple has at least a client. SMB is
> also known as CIFS (Common Internet File System, I think).
Another alternative is NFS. When my wife wants to get at my music
library, she runs a script I put on her Mac to do an NFS mount on
my Linux box.
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