On Sunday 04 July 2004 05:32 pm, Leo J Mauler wrote:

Why not just move the files you want to share to to the linux machine, share 
them via samba to the Windows box and via netatalk to the Mac?  User files 
and shared files should be stored on a central server anyway.

> And why is it that there are no free Macintosh SAMBA clients?  

Apple is the most restricted, closed source bunch of A.R. dunderheads in the 
bunch.  Next to them, IBM and Microsoft are wide open.  They (along with 
Lotus) practically patented the look-and-feel lawsuit!  Their entire business 
model was based on suing people for decades, which is how they got down to 
the market share they have.  OS-X only has the capability to run samba becuse 
it's based on the free BSD OS they used to catch up with Linux and Windows.

If you think Apple taking advantage of free software means they support Open 
Source or the philosophy behind it, ask yourself where the Linux iChat client 
is.

Microsoft, a major shareholder in Apple, Inc., offers Mac filesharing on it's 
platforms that are intended to run as network servers, so there's no reason 
for Apple to have ever developed it.  

From all evidence, working with non-Apple operating systems is contrary to the 
Apple philosophy.  Years of supporting Mac's in heterogenous environments 
leads me to believe they were never intended to work properly with anything 
but other Mac's.

(Sorry, I have this profound allergy to Mac evangelism.)