RE: IBM Lack of Macintosh Support

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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