Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2002 17:06:40 -0500 (EST) From: John Bleichert <syborg@stny.rr.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Rephrasing my question [Samba, FreeBSD and an MS-DOS-"daemon"] Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0204031703390.17901-100000@janeway.vonbek.dhs.org> In-Reply-To: <3CAB7767.922E1FE0@cs.umu.se>
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On Wed, 3 Apr 2002, Paul Everlund wrote: > Is an MS-DOS-program able make a DOS-system call, to ask the > size of a file, which resides on a Samba server? The Samba > server is mounted on a FreeBSD file system. > > If it can't, what will the effects be? A disconnection of > the network drive the MS-DOS-computer has set up with use? > At least that's what's happening, and I would like to know > if any DOS-system call might be responsible for this. I > personally think this could be the case, but I'm not sure. > If you have a samba shared resource mounted into your win32 filesystem you should be able to make any relevant system call on any file residing on it I believe. This sounds like more of a question for a dos or win32 developer's newsgroup. You may not find many people here with any experience using MS-DOS system calls ... Then again, I could be wrong ;-) |-John Bleichert----syborg@stny.rr.com----------------| |-------------------http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg--| To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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