From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 27 22:41: 0 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from itouch.co.nz (fw2.wilsonandhorton.co.nz [203.99.66.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EEDBB37B71E for ; Thu, 27 Apr 2000 22:40:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jonc@itouch.co.nz) Received: (from jonc@localhost) by itouch.co.nz (8.9.3/8.9.3) id RAA12014; Sat, 29 Apr 2000 17:41:09 +1200 (NZST) (envelope-from jonc) Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2000 17:41:09 +1200 From: Jonathan Chen To: Darryl Williams Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Network File System access in FreeBSD 3.3 Message-ID: <20000429174109.A11850@jonc.itouch.co.nz> References: <20000428052858.3755.qmail@web2902.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <20000428052858.3755.qmail@web2902.mail.yahoo.com>; from darrylw@rocketmail.com on Thu, Apr 27, 2000 at 10:28:58PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message