Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2003 20:36:56 -0500 From: Mike Jeays <mj001@rogers.com> To: Adam Stroud <adstro@stny.rr.com> Cc: Dave McCoy <mccoy@cet.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mounting a dos file system Message-ID: <3E1F7538.6010009@rogers.com> References: <3E1F47FC.7000308@cet.com> <200301101913.49614.adstro@stny.rr.com>
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Adam Stroud wrote: >Instal Samba. I have a silimar situation, and Samba works great foe me. > > > > >>I have small network at home, my system running freebsd and two other >>systems running windoze. I would like to be able to mount one of the >>logical dos drives on one of the windoze systems so I can transfer files >>to it. Is it possible and how do I go about doing it? >> >>Any help is greatly appreciated. >> >> >>To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >>with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message >> >> > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > You don't need Samba to mount a DOS partition on your FreeBSD machine. All it needs is a command such as "mount -t msdos /dev/ad1s1 /mnt" where ad1s1 is the name of the partition holding the DOS file system, and /mnt is a valid, empty directory. You need Samba if you want to work the other way around; ie to read and write a FreeBSD filesystem from a Windows machine. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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