Download files directly to a Samba share

Nov 21, '02 08:30:22AM

Contributed by: pgnesmith

I use an iMac with very limited room on the hard drive. What I have ended up doing is building a Samba server out of one of my old linux machines for additional storage. What I was doing until I found the following trick was to download files to my hard drive and then move the files over to the server, as I was unable to choose the Samba share in the "where to download" choices.

What I did was make an alias to my Samba share and put it on my desktop. When I want to download to the Samba share, I can choose to download to the alias I created on my desktop and it will logon to the Samba server and download directly to the Samba share. Maybe with future upgrades this won't be necessary, but until then, this is the only way I have found to download directly to the Samba share.

[Editor's note: I can't verify this one myself, as at the moment, I can't seem to get Windows2000 to recognize my password from my Mac, so no Samba share to connect to!]

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