bug#27991: 26.0.50; TRAMP on OSX to Windows: smbclient not available

[Michael Albinus]

Alan Third <alan@idiocy.org> writes:

Hi Alan,

> On Mon, Aug 07, 2017 at 05:07:45PM -0700, James Nguyen wrote:
>> To clarify, at this point, I'm not sure if it's a problem on my end, a
>> known issue, a problem with Emacs (unlikely), on Apple, etc.
>> 
>> If someone with a recent version of OSX can chime in, that'd be great!
>
> I don’t have smbclient either, and a quick look about the ’net implies
> it’s not been available on macOS since at least 2012.
>
> Homebrew have removed their samba package because modern versions
> don’t build on macOS, so that’s not even an option.

So we can assume that Samba cannot be used on macOS.

> It seems the only way to access SMB shares is to mount them.

Well, Tramp offers another way to access SMB shares via
tramp-gvfs.el. But this requires, that GVFS and D-Bus are installed on
macOS. Don't know whether this is possible.

Best regards, Michael.