Date: Thu, 2 Sep 1999 01:23:00 +1000 From: "Young" <young@richardson.apana.org.au> To: "Doug" <Doug@gorean.org> Cc: <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Software Compatibility Message-ID: <000a01bef48d$e2099f00$857e03cb@jdy>
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Way back in the heyday of Win 3.x, accessing other computers on a LAN was simply a matter of assigning an unused drive letter on local box to the remote drive, thereafter the remote drive can be addressed just like a local one. The Win9x and sibling (and reportedly the forthcoming Corel Linux) system is even easier .... just click on the desktop Network Neighbourhood icon and you can immediately see all computers online in the same workgroup. Its always been a mystery to me why someone hasn't "borrowed" that feature before now ... Its heaps more usable by regular folks than mounting a drive in any *nix which is obviously why the writer is looking for info on using the same system with BSD. > Are you using X on these systems? If so there are a LOT of file manager >programs. My personal favorite window manager is KDE, which comes with kfm >on by default. If you're not using X, lynx should be able to handle url's >like: > >file:///usr/home/chrisndeb/ > >to give you a place to start. Beyond that, I'm not sure what "mapping a >drive to the server" means. > >Good luck, > >Doug > > >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
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