Lesson 28. Network File Services

Time

This lesson takes approximately 1 hour to complete.

Goals

Identify the file-sharing services available in Mac OS X

Manipulate the configuration choices for personal file sharing

Locate specific contents of the smb.conf file and test them using the testparm command

Differentiate between browsing for SMB services on Mac OS X and Windows

Access an SMB service running on Mac OS X from a Windows computer

Connect to a shared FTP volume on a Mac OS X computer from Windows and from UNIX and transfer files

Access FTP services from the command-line or using a Web browser

The last two lessons of this book focus on file sharing on Mac OS X. In this lesson, you’ll learn about the three file-sharing services ...

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