Date: Sun, 9 Jan 2000 09:55:42 +1100 (EDT) From: Andrew MacIntyre <andymac@bullseye.apana.org.au> To: Nicolas Blais <nicblais@hotmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Banyan Vines Message-ID: <Pine.OS2.3.95.1000109094921.511A-100000@CENTRAL> In-Reply-To: <20000108182322.94853.qmail@hotmail.com>
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On Sat, 8 Jan 2000, Nicolas Blais wrote:
> Hi, my name is Nicolas Blais and I work as Network Administrator for the
> 430th Helicopter Squadron at the Canadian Forces. We currently use Banyan
> Vines for all our Network needs but we would like to change it to FreeBSD as
> we where impressed of its power and specially its price.
> Unfortunately, we can't install FreeBSD as there is no easy way to transfer
> data from BV to FreeBSD since FreeBSD can't connect to the BV network.
>
> I'm wondering if there is a way to connect to it and if not, I'm wondering
> if FreeBSD will be able in the future.
It should be possible to configure a Win95 box as both a Banyan and MS
network client. Then mount source (Banyan) and target (MS net - samba on
FreeBSD) volumes and copy with Explorer. You could also use FTP to the
target if you can find an FTP client that makes it easy to recursively
copy directories as well as files.
The easiest way to transfer mail is to have the users forward it to the
new environment themselves, assuming you have a Vines<->SMTP gateway. It
probably is possible to use VB with some of the released BanyanAPI
bindings to automate the forwarding (and do the SMTP bit as well if you
don't have a gateway).
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