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MacEnterprise: Understanding SMB in OS X

by Philip Rinehart
Aug, 2007 Issue

Article Synopsis

This month, the MacEnterprise community has been talking about Samba, and how OS X uses it, both on Server and Client. It’s a bit of an interesting topic, as both use a version of Samba, 3.0.10, that is slightly out of date, as the current version of Samba shipping is 3.0.25a. It is interesting to note that the Finder does not primarily use the underlying samba framework, but instead uses mount_smbfs, a command from the FreeBSD project instead. First let’s look at this particular command.

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