Date: Fri, 27 Mar 1998 01:18:05 -0800 (PST) From: "Bryan K. Ogawa" <bkogawa@primenet.com> To: malte@webmore.com Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG, "Daniel R. Brownstone" <drbrowns@ls.wustl.edu> Subject: Re: FreeBSD & Windows Message-ID: <199803270918.BAA11549@foo.primenet.com> References: <8909875770102470000> <3.0.32.19980327090701.006cfb54@cyclone.degnet.baynet.de>
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In localhost.freebsd.questions you write: >At 13:40 26.03.98 -0600, you wrote: >>Every student has an e-mail account on the FreeBSD box. Which means that >>to check their mail, they either dial in from home, or else they sit down >>at one of the PCs in our lab, and telnet in to the server from Win95. >Puuhhh this is really painfull for just checking and reading email. Install >qpopper or something else with POP3-support from the ports and let the >Win95-user fetch their email with a Win95-client that supports POP3 (like >Eudora or Communicator). Have also a look at poppassd for changing >email-account-passwords. >For all other points you mentioned have a look at samba. I am sharing my >printer and filesystems with Win95-boxes over the lan with samba. As a bunch of other folks mentioned, samba allows almost all of this stuff. The only thing that it probably doesn't do out of the box are print quotas or the like, but I suspect someone can hack that together without too much difficulty. Doing POP3 support is possible, but somewhat messy due to the fact that many pop3 clients like to leave copies of the mail they've just downloaded on the client side, which is probably not the right thing to do in a public lab. Of course, if everyone who logs in gets a bit of disk space on the BSD server and this space is where they store their mail... -- bryan k ogawa <bkogawa@primenet.com> http://www.primenet.com/~bkogawa/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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