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Michael,

What about NFS?

The iSeries can be an NFS server, is there an NFS client for Mac?  I'd imagine 
one is built into OS X.

Charles Wilt
iSeries Systems Administrator / Developer
Mitsubishi Electric Automotive America
ph: 513-573-4343
fax: 513-398-1121
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Michael Ryan
> Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2005 5:10 PM
> To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
> Subject: IBM Lack of Macintosh Support
> 
> 
> One wonders why IBM is so dead set on not providing support 
> for anything
> except Windows workstations. My advertising department is 
> using Macs for
> page layouts and such. I want to be able to map an iSeries 
> directory using
> NetServer out so the Macs can establish a drive. Can't be 
> done...here's
> IBM's take on it:
> 
> "Problem Summary:
> Can MacIntosh PCs map network drives to iSeries Netserver?
> 
> Resolution:
> iSeries NetServer provides no support for the MacIntosh 
> operating system. It
> is not possible to map a network drive to the NetServer using 
> a MacIntosh
> PC.
> 
> Note: iSeries NetServer provides support for PC's running 
> Windows networking
> code (Windows 9x, NT, 2000, XP). Beginning with V5R1M0 
> iSeries 400 (with
> additional PTFs applied), the NetServer also provides support 
> for the Samba
> client used by Linux/Unix clients."
> 
> WDSC only works under Windows, NetServer drives can only be mapped to
> Windows, Webfacing only works with Windows...bleah...
> 
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