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why do you need sharity?
Authored by: frigaut on Oct 26, '01 11:45:28PM

Hi ,

I don't get it. Why do you need sharity ? I did not install neither sharity
nor dave. But I can connect to a windows or unix server and I have
access to all the file in the share thru the regular finder. What am I
missing here ? Do you want additionnal functionalities ?
The only thing I am missing is that I did not find any options to
reconnect automaticaly at login on the network. Each time I have to
reconnect manually. Hints on that ?
Cheers,
F.R.



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why do you need sharity?
Authored by: junehao on Oct 27, '01 01:11:50AM

Because you cannot just use smb://server, you have to indicate the share explicitely like smb://server/share. In my working environment we have 20+ Windows NT/2000 servers and each one has a whole bunch of shares. Without using Sharity I have to go to one of the Windows machine to check which resource I am going to connect because I can't remember all of them. Well of course that's not a problem for those who has only one Windows server and a few shares. :-)



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why do you need sharity?
Authored by: jeremyp on Dec 18, '01 09:10:14AM

Thank you. That is the single most useful thing I've read since installing Mac OSX.1. I've been trying to figure out how to do windows shares since then, and it turns out all I needed was the actual share name as well as the machine name.



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why do you need sharity?
Authored by: shacker on Oct 27, '01 01:55:51AM

Based on my reading through newsgroups, macslash, this site, and certainly from my own experience over the past week, it seems that OSX.1's SMB mounting facilities (from Connect to Server or using mount_smbfs and/or smbutil from the command line, and even after adding the remote machine's hostname to NetInfo per Apple Knowledge Base article 88158), work only for some networks and under some situations. Exactly what circumstances it works under I haven't yet determined, but I know that my linux-hosted SMB share is a dirt simple, no-password-required share, and that OSX.1 absolutely refuses to see it under any circumstances (Win machines on the same network see it fine).

For those of us in this (still mysterious) situation, Sharity is the only solution, and it works like a charm.



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