Sharity
Current Version: 3.6 (August 26, 2008)
Objective Development Software produces Sharity, a client for the CIFS (Common Internet File System) protocol, formerly known as SMB (Server Message Block). This is the file-sharing protocol used by Windows NT, 95, 98, 2000, ME, Windows for Workgroups, OS/2, Samba and many others. Sharity mounts these servers in your file system. Mounting means that you can open files directly from the server with any application you like, as if they were on a local disk. Other clients (such as smbclient from the Samba suite) provide only an ftp-like interface where you can copy files to and from the share but cannot open them directly on the server.
Version 3.6 adds/changes the following:
- Fixed a bug with faked symbolic links. This bug was new in version 3.4.
Single user pricing ranges from $29 (home use) to $199 (business use), with volume discounts available.
Please note that the GUI is not a native Cocoa or Carbon application; it uses the portable FLTK toolkit which does not give the Aqua look and feel and which may be a bit buggy in some places.
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the Mac OS X (Cocoa / Universal) demonstration version.
Version 3.7 beta 2 is also available in "Universal" format for PowerPC- and Intel-based Macs (November 20, 2008), making the following changes:
- Share names may now contain non-ASCII characters.
- Fixed display of share level security mounts in login list.
- Added workarounds for unreliable DFS servers. DFS capable servers may not report their DFS capability immediately after reboot.
- Always allow root user to unmount shares, even if the mounts section is locked.
- Kerberos authentication did not work with Windows 2008 servers. Fixed.
- The modification date of newly created files could be off by several seconds. Fixed.
- Implemented NTLM2 (not to be confused with NTLMv2) authentication. This improves interoperability with Windows 2008 Server.
The online release notes have further details about changes in previous betas.
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