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Date:      Wed, 23 Sep 1998 15:51:38 +0200
From:      Johann Visagie <wjv@cityip.co.za>
To:        Gorton Zhao Guo Wei <gwzhao@multiwave.com.sg>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: A couple of questions to FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <19980923155138.B9414@cityip.co.za>
In-Reply-To: <000401bde2b0$74da58b0$dfd378cb@gwzhao.pacific.net.sg>; from Gorton Zhao Guo Wei on Fri, Sep 18, 1998 at 11:00:10AM %2B0800
References:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980917011856.3291D-100000@abc.xyz.net> <000401bde2b0$74da58b0$dfd378cb@gwzhao.pacific.net.sg>

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On Fri, 18 Sep 1998 at 11:00 SAT, Gorton Zhao Guo Wei wrote:
> 
> I actually have the FreeBSD 2.2.6 with me, but I feel that it
> is hard to change those people's mind who use MS stuffs every
> day. It is needed to have a set of programs that make it transparent to
> end-user if use a FreeBSD as a backbone to PC
> office users. I mean that if use FreeBSD replace MS backoffice,
> the PC user at the net must be still able to use their favor MS
> stuffs, such as mail, database. This is the point of business
> view, not of technique view. Are there any tools that provide
> link from FreeBSD to MS? I would appreciate any suggestions on
> this.

You can use Samba to provide Microsoft-style SMB file service and
authentication from FreeBSD (it's in the ports).

As for mail, all Windows mailers should support POP3 and/or IMAP.  They're
not Unix or BSD protocols, they're Internet protocols.  :)

-- V

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