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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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