Re: IBM Lack of Macintosh Support

[Michael Ryan <michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Good thought Charles...certainly a possibility. On further investigation, it
looks like Apple's SMB support is the problem. I d/l'ed Thursby's DAVE
s/w...nice implementation of SMB for a Mac. I was able to access the iSeries
with no problems, everything looked right.

On 2/23/05 05:57 PM, "Wilt, Charles" <CWilt@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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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