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Date:      Wed, 9 May 2001 11:52:05 +0930
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        Eric Boucher <eric_boucher60@yahoo.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Samba on a unique machine
Message-ID:  <20010509115205.B57855@wantadilla.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <20010509015519.69058.qmail@web9403.mail.yahoo.com>; from eric_boucher60@yahoo.com on Tue, May 08, 2001 at 06:55:19PM -0700
References:  <20010509015519.69058.qmail@web9403.mail.yahoo.com>

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On Tuesday,  8 May 2001 at 18:55:19 -0700, Eric Boucher wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have FreeBSD and Windows 2000 on the same computer.
> I wonder if it's possible to use samba to have access
> from windows to my FreeBSD partitions and make simple
> task like copying files of FreeBSD from windows. If
> not, is there a freeware to do this kind of task.

Samba is a network protocol.  It can't work when only one of the
machines is running.

But there's a much simpler method: use ntfs and mount the slice as a
file system:

 # mount -t ntfs /dev/ad0s1 /mnt

You'll have to find what slice it's on, of course.

Greg
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