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From: "Pedro F. Giffuni" <giffunip@asme.org>
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To: Stranger in a strange land <roam@online.bg>
Cc: roam@online.bg, questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: UFS/FFS support under NT?
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Only IMHO,

It doesn't make much sense for a server OS to support such a tool (for
security and other reasons), so I doubt someone is working on it.

Just keep one box for BSD, another for NT, and use NFS, a serial port or
something similar to transfer from one to the other.

cheers,

     Pedro

Stranger in a strange land wrote:
> 
> Okay, so I searched the mailing lists, so this question has been asked
> once or twice before, with no definite answer but 'use FreeBSD'.
> Well, I *am* using FreeBSD - the problem is, due to employment
> situation, I *have* to use WinNT as well. Is there any way to
> mount/access fbsd slices under NT? Anything - even an
> ftp/smbclient-style program for simply traversing directories and
> reading files - would do.. read-only access would be enough.
> (Guess I am kind of lazy to read the kernel code and code up a little fs
> traversing tool myself.. but I just might have to do it, if the need
> should really arise..)
> 
> I am currently using FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE with plans to upgrade to
> 3.3-RELEASE. At home, I'm using WinNT WorkStation 4.0/SP4; at work -
> WinNT Enterprise Server 4.0. All partitions are on a single IDE HDD.
> 
> Any help would be appreciated; sorry for the cross-post.
> 
> G'luck,
> Roamer
> 
> PS. I am currently not on the list, so please cc: replies to
> roam@online.bg.
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