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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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