solrac
Mac Ninja
The samba file sharing works pretty well, even though there is no GUI to connect to the PC host, other than a window to type in its network name.
If you type in the correct name and password, Mac OS X mounts the PC computer as a drive on the desktop, so you use the OS X GUI from there to navigate and copy to the drive.
For me, that's fine.
The really ANNOYING thing though is this... anytime I access the mounted disk, and / or copy files to it (which works fine)... Mac OS X writes STUPID invisible files to it, but they are not invisible on Windows OS.
So if I go to the PC machine later, I'll see all the files Mac OS X put there.
They are:
.DS_Store
._[filename]
for every file [filename] you copy to a folder, you get a duplicate ._[filename] in the same folder, which is just trash you might as well throw away or it clutters your PC machine's folders.
.DS_Store is also trash, it really serves no purpose. Deleting that gives no problems on windows or Mac OS X, except OS X will rewrite it every time you access folders and stuff on the mounted drive.
What's the deal with it?????????
Oh, and if you delete something off the mounted drive, OS X puts its invisible ._Trashes folder there, too! (And leaves it there even after the file is deleted ... D'oh!!!)
-solrac-
If you type in the correct name and password, Mac OS X mounts the PC computer as a drive on the desktop, so you use the OS X GUI from there to navigate and copy to the drive.
For me, that's fine.
The really ANNOYING thing though is this... anytime I access the mounted disk, and / or copy files to it (which works fine)... Mac OS X writes STUPID invisible files to it, but they are not invisible on Windows OS.
So if I go to the PC machine later, I'll see all the files Mac OS X put there.
They are:
.DS_Store
._[filename]
for every file [filename] you copy to a folder, you get a duplicate ._[filename] in the same folder, which is just trash you might as well throw away or it clutters your PC machine's folders.
.DS_Store is also trash, it really serves no purpose. Deleting that gives no problems on windows or Mac OS X, except OS X will rewrite it every time you access folders and stuff on the mounted drive.
What's the deal with it?????????
Oh, and if you delete something off the mounted drive, OS X puts its invisible ._Trashes folder there, too! (And leaves it there even after the file is deleted ... D'oh!!!)
-solrac-