From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 20 14:42:44 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4BABD37B404 for ; Wed, 20 Nov 2002 14:42:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from ens1.eatel.net (www.premier.net [209.124.203.53]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0879743E97 for ; Wed, 20 Nov 2002 14:42:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from matbranyon@eatel.net) Received: from locke.home.lan (ip-209-124-248-52.eatel.net [209.124.248.52]) by ens1.eatel.net (8.12.0/8.12.0) with ESMTP id gAKMgaoL007603; Wed, 20 Nov 2002 16:42:37 -0600 (CST) Subject: Re: Putting home directories on mounted windows network drive From: mat branyon To: Laszlo Vagner Cc: adaml@visimation.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <3DDBF659.70005@vagner.com> References: <002a01c290cd$71326a20$6400000a@5adam5> <1037822759.1462.5.camel@burner> <3DDBF659.70005@vagner.com> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.0.8 (1.0.8-10) Date: 20 Nov 2002 16:42:39 +0600 Message-Id: <1037788962.4130.14.camel@locke.home.lan> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG i remember something a while back where you can mount via the smb protocol, but i never read further into it --mat On Thu, 2002-11-21 at 02:53, Laszlo Vagner wrote: > Mat Branyon wrote: > > >You can put a larger hard drive into the machine, as long as you make > >the root/boot partition under the first two gigs. although your bios > >doesn't support large hard-drives, freebsd does. as far as i can tell, > >freebsd just doesnt get the hard drive info from teh bios. i had a 40 > >gig hard drive in an old compaq 166mhz pentium mmx. never had a problem > >with it. > >you can also mount the ntfs partitions via samba or nfs, whichever you > >would rather use. when you share a filesystem over the network, to my > >understanding, file permissions are handled via smb or nfs protocol, of > >which both freebsd windows can share. > > > >--mat > > > >--mat > > > >On Wed, 2002-11-20 at 13:45, Adam Lofstedt wrote: > > > > > >>Hi (Please CC any responses to me, as I get the digest version) > >> > >>Right now my FBSD firewall box is also my lightly-used ftp server with > >>chrooted ftp users. An old machine (P133, 1.8 G Hard Drive) just got > >>freed up, and I would like to move the ftp services over to that old > >>thing. The problem is the Hard Disk is real small, and the board won't > >>support a larger one. I do have plenty of space on several windows > >>machines (NTFS) partitions, and was wondering if I could just mount an > >>NTFS network partition on the FTP box, and store the User's Home > >>directories on that Partition. Do you see anything wrong with this > >>approach? How are permissions handled (a mix of NTFS and UNIX > >>permissions?)? Can you even mount a networked windows drive in FBSD > >>(using Samba I guess)? > >> > >>Thanks for any advice! > >> > >>Adam > >> > >> > >>To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > >>with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > >> > >> > >> > > > > > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > > > > > yes freebsd dont use the bios to access hard disks, I have a 30 gig > drive in my old > IBM 760 (pentium 166) laptop. > > I think he wants Rumba though, he wants to mount a windows shared > directory onto the fbsd machine. > samba does the opposite unless things have changed in the last few > months? correct me if i am wrong. > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message