Date: Sun, 31 Aug 1997 11:36:47 +0200 (MET DST) From: Marco Molteni <molter@logic.it> To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: "Jonathan E. Lyons" <parrothd@midwest.net> Subject: Re: Mounting Remote Fat & NTFS partions in FreeBSD 2.2.2 Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970831113050.431A-100000@dumbwinter.ecomotor.it> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970830224129.664R-100000@localhost>
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On Sat, 30 Aug 1997, Doug White wrote:
> On Fri, 29 Aug 1997, Jonathan E. Lyons wrote:
>
> > Is it possible to mount a remote Fat/NTFS partion in Freebsd
^^^^^^
> > 2.2.2? I've used samba to map BSD partions to my Win95/NT
> > machines, but I'm wondering can samba map a remote Fat/NTFS
> > volume under say /usr/home/?
>
> You can mount FAT (FAT16) partitions, though, by specifying the
> option '-t msdos' to the mount command. For instance:
>
> mount -t msdos /dev/wd0s1 /mnt [..]
Jonathan asked for a remote FAT partition, not a local one ;-)
Jonathan, the opposite of Samba is... Rumba! No, I'm not joking, have a
look at www.freebsd.org/ports and search for "rumba".
Marco Molteni
Computer Science student at the Universita' degli studi di Milano, Italy.
UNIX _is_ user friendly. It's just selective about who its friends are.
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