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by StillBored 45 days ago
Does the mac still lack a SMB/CIFS browser?

I was shocked years ago that the mac, famous for its early network peer discovery and zeroconf and all, couldn't present a list of SMB servers and shares despite that kind of function being around forever on every other platform in existence.
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zdw 45 days ago
macOS has a Network location in the sidebar that will show other SMB devices discovered on the network.
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hamdingers 45 days ago
Must have been a lot of years ago since Samba was introduced in Jaguar (2002), and SMB replaced AFP as the default for file sharing as of Mavericks (2013).
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slackfan 45 days ago
It's had it since before version 10.4, though it wasn't fantastic, I'll give you that.
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