
That's because all versions of OS X support SMB natively, so you can use your Mac not only to view the Windows Home Server shares, but also to open and work with files on those shares (provided, of course, that you have permission to access the share and that OS X has an application that's compatible with whatever file you want to work with). SMB's central role in Windows networking is good news if you have a Mac in your household. In a very real sense, SMB is the network. It is via SMB that Windows PCs can share folders on the network and access folders that other Windows PCs have shared.

One of the important networking layers used by all Microsoft networks-including, of course, your Windows Home Server network-is called Server Message Block (SMB).

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