Re: Connecting Apple Mac's to iSeries

["Simon Coulter" <shc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello John,

You wrote:
>One of our clients recently acquired a company that uses a network of Apple 
>Macintosh clients.  What is the best way for them to store files from the 
>Mac's on the iSeries IFS?

MacOS X has native support for the Server Message Block (which Microsloth 
insist 
is Windows Networking). Earlier versions of MacOS require a third-party 
application to provide SMB support (called DAVE).

If you enable NetServer on OS/400 and define shared directories then the Mac 
users can connect to the shares and read and write them as if they were local 
drives (just like the WinDOS crowd can).

The really funny thing is that NetServer doesn't even know a Mac is using it so 
it can't reject the request like it does when OS/2 tries to connect.

Note that this means the Mac users can connect to shares hosted by Windoze 
servers and Samba servers too.

>I don't know a thing about Mac's!!!

Then you're about to have a good learning experience.  Welcome to the light.

Regards,
Simon Coulter.
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