FW: FW: Connecting Apple Mac's to iSeries

Here is what a co-worker of mine stated.

<Quote>
Actually, for almost any solution I can think of, you'd need to either 1.
Pay for extra software on the mac or 2. Install extra software on the
iSeries. 

1. Extra software on the Mac. 
There are solutions for FTP, if the iSeries can do that to the IFS. Those
come in both the free and non variety. There is Dave which lets the mac do
SMB.... 

2. Extra software on the iSeries. 
I know of a Java Appleshare server that's GPL. 
http://giantlaser.com/jaffer/
</Quote>  

On Tuesday, July 8, 2003, at 08:54 AM, Wills, Mike N. (TC) wrote: 


Any ideas for OS 8/9 systems? 


-----Original Message----- 
From: Simon Coulter [mailto:shc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 2003 12:56 PM 
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion 
Subject: Re: Connecting Apple Mac's to iSeries 




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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