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Accessing filesharing

Accessing filesharing - Mac OS Tutorial

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Accessing filesharing

- [Narrator] macOS systems are great network citizens. Filled with high performance support for network file systems and network transport protocols. It's hard to find a network file server that a Mac will have a problem accessing one way or another. A macOS system can connect to other Mac systems that have file sharing turned on, but also to Windows computers with shared folders, airport discs and time capsules, servers on the same network or routable networks, servers that use Apple file protocol, SMB, CIFS, NFS, FTP, and WebDav services, servers running Linux, Unix, Windows server, as well as any of the possible FTP servers out there, and don't even get me started on network attached storage devices. Although in the case of FTP, I will let you know, Apple will let you connect and see and copy files from an FTP server to your local system, but they won't let you upload to an FTP server using the finder. For that, you're…

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