Date: Mon, 15 Jan 1996 11:06:17 +0100 (MET) From: Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> To: binhdo@cs.ubc.ca (Binh Do) Cc: danb@server.iadfw.net, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Win95 - FreeBSD Message-ID: <199601151006.LAA11506@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> In-Reply-To: <9601141906.ZM9608@columbia.cs.ubc.ca> from "Binh Do" at Jan 14, 96 07:06:11 pm
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> > On Jan 14, 1:20pm, Dan Baritchi wrote: > > Subject: > ": "Hi, > ": " > ": "I was wondering if FreeBSD 2.1 has the ability to communicate > ": "with my DOS drive. (actually not DOS, but WIN'95). > ": " > Yes it has. When installing, remember to mount the DOS partition > as e.g. /win95. > > ": "I don't necessarily need to run programs from the DOS drive, > ": "but I would like to be able to transfer files between them. > ": " > As some people pointed out, currently you can communicate with win95 from BSD > and you can read from there only. So you can copy files from win95 to BSD but > not the other way. You can do so using samba (Lanmager/TCP based). This works from the BSD side as client as well (though - as explained earlier in this list there is no way to mount a Win95 system into a BSD system). (unless someone ports the linux smbfs - which is due to it's non-statelessness not so attractive). > > ": "Thanks, > ": " > ": "Dan Baritchi > ": "dan@airmail.net > ": "danb@server.iadfw.net > ": " > >-- End of excerpt from Dan Baritchi > > > > -- > > Binh Do > Department Of Computer Science > University Of BC, Canada > --Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de
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