From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 23 06:52:41 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA27618 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 23 Sep 1998 06:52:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns.cityip.co.za (ns.cityip.co.za [196.25.223.140]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id GAA27611 for ; Wed, 23 Sep 1998 06:52:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wjv@cityip.co.za) Received: from wjv by ns.cityip.co.za with local (Exim 1.82 #2) id 0zLpKU-0002SM-00; Wed, 23 Sep 1998 15:51:38 +0200 Message-ID: <19980923155138.B9414@cityip.co.za> Date: Wed, 23 Sep 1998 15:51:38 +0200 From: Johann Visagie To: Gorton Zhao Guo Wei Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: A couple of questions to FreeBSD Mail-Followup-To: Gorton Zhao Guo Wei , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <000401bde2b0$74da58b0$dfd378cb@gwzhao.pacific.net.sg> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <000401bde2b0$74da58b0$dfd378cb@gwzhao.pacific.net.sg>; from Gorton Zhao Guo Wei on Fri, Sep 18, 1998 at 11:00:10AM +0800 X-PGP: ftp://ftp.cityip.co.za/users/wjv/pubkey.asc Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 18 Sep 1998 at 11:00 SAT, Gorton Zhao Guo Wei wrote: > > I actually have the FreeBSD 2.2.6 with me, but I feel that it > is hard to change those people's mind who use MS stuffs every > day. It is needed to have a set of programs that make it transparent to > end-user if use a FreeBSD as a backbone to PC > office users. I mean that if use FreeBSD replace MS backoffice, > the PC user at the net must be still able to use their favor MS > stuffs, such as mail, database. This is the point of business > view, not of technique view. Are there any tools that provide > link from FreeBSD to MS? I would appreciate any suggestions on > this. You can use Samba to provide Microsoft-style SMB file service and authentication from FreeBSD (it's in the ports). As for mail, all Windows mailers should support POP3 and/or IMAP. They're not Unix or BSD protocols, they're Internet protocols. :) -- V To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message