9/14/2023 0 Comments Macos samba![]() That incompatibility was fixed in a version of Samba that Apple *cannot* use, due to the adoption of GPLv3 for current versions of Samba. ![]() Lest anyone think otherwise, the prior (now extremely old) versions of Samba that Apple had been using (up tot but not after Mac OS X 10.6) do not provide support for domain-style accounts for Vista nor - especially - Windows 7- so nothing beyond basic file-sharing, ie: no domain-style profiles hosted on the server. Strings /usr/sbin/smbd | grep smbx | wc -lĮxcerpt of strings /usr/sbin/smbd | grep smbx PROJECT:smbx-136.18 ![]() In 10.7 and 10.8, mount_smbfs is still provided but that is also not invoked when making a clientĪs far as "Samba" server goes in 10.7 and later, /usr/bin/smbd is actually Apple's "smbx". There is a smbclient binary supplied in 10.5 and 10.6 but that is not invoked when making a clientĬonnection (to a Samba or CIFS (Microsoft server) sharepoint via the Mac OS X Finder. I've seen a number of uninformed and misguided posts about "Samba" in Mac OS X 10.7 and later, in various locations online, and most recently here in the Spiceworks "Apple Group" area.Īs of 10.7 and later, Apple no longer provides Samba server.Īs far back as 10.5, Mac OS X does *NOT* use Samba for client connections ![]()
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