When I say I don't know... I mean I don't know the whole Mac OSX management, tech repair, stuff.marurun wrote:Hey, don't hate Mac OS X until you know it. Apathy and ignorance I'm OK with, but hate and ignorance is a bitch. I happen to like the OS even though I don't have any Apple machines. I've used them extensively. Apple's OS X is a fusion of NeXT and NetBSD. If you're going to hate the OS (and that's your right, don't let me stop you) at least know something about it and base your hatred on something concrete. And yes, for Windows shares and Windows sharing it uses Samba.
To clarify your explanation of Samba, the Windows file sharing protocol is Server Message Block, or SMB. Samba basically is an open source/free implementation of SMB sharing protocols. It's actually a pretty crappy way to share files, but since Windows dominates the market, everyone does things Microsoft's way.
I DO know how it functions... bought a iBook specifically to try out MacOSX and all the great stuff I heard about it.
I freakin' hated using it... it was like it was so user friendly that you HAD to be an idiot to use, or be a Unix guru to dig through terminal and do everything through the backdoor. Which I am neither.
So I installed Linux on the little bastard.
