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 -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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