Date: Sun, 8 Dec 1996 21:08:47 +1030 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: wangel@wgrobez1.remote.louisville.edu (Gary Roberts) Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: samba Message-ID: <199612081038.VAA03667@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.95.961208043444.1287B-100000@wgrobez1.remote.louisville.edu> from Gary Roberts at "Dec 8, 96 04:36:39 am"
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Gary Roberts stands accused of saying: > Just wondering if anyone was planning on making an 'smbmount' for the > fbsd? I use samba now to share my unix drives with win95 clients, but I > can't mount my win95 shares via fbsd(unless I use smbclient, and that's > like ftp). And as far as I know, there isn't a NFS server for 95. Please go back and read the mailing list archives for the meat of the last N times this has come up. Searching for 'smbfs' is probably a good place to start. Look particularly for Terry's detailed rants on the topic. Basically, the core problem is that the SMB protocol doesn't provide the features necessary for the implementation of a unix filesystem. The linux smbfs is, in the tradition of Linux, a festering hack, and this isn't exclusively the fault of the implementors. > I think having a 'samba fs' and the ability to mount shared machine > drives(ie: win95, winnt, wfw, etc) would be cool. Well, what can I say? Go for it! 8) > Gary -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[
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