One thing all Mac users have had to come to accept is that we live in a Windows world. Because of it, file sharing was a major sticky point for OS X when it first appeared as 10.2 and it tried to answer this problem with a UNIX technology called Samba. Samba, or SMB, helps emulate Window shares for UNIX operating systems. Since OS X is running on FreeBSD, an UNIX variant, SMB was a no brainer to implement. Well, not quite a no brainer. There were problems early on and Apple has done a pretty good job of fixing?
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