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Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2000 17:41:09 +1200
From: Jonathan Chen <Jonathan.Chen@itouch.co.nz>
To: Darryl Williams <darrylw@rocketmail.com>
Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Network File System access in FreeBSD 3.3
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On Thu, Apr 27, 2000 at 10:28:58PM -0700, Darryl Williams wrote:
> Anyone,
> 
> I believe it should be possible to gain access from
> our Unix box running FreeBSD 3.3 to file
> systems/directories on either or both Windows 98 and
> Windows NT Server workstations on our network to
> enable ready transfer of files either to or from our
> Unix workstation using an appropriate mount command
> with the correct syntax, however I am not having any
> joy.

Currently you can only mount *local* Windows file-systems. Network
filesystems under Windows are use SMB. I do not believe that FreeBSD
has a `mount_smb' as yet.

It is, however, possible to mount the FreeBSD file-systems on a Windows
box using samba.
--
Jonathan Chen <jonathan.chen@itouch.co.nz>


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