From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 28 0: 7:28 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rdc2.bc.home.com (ha1.rdc2.bc.wave.home.com [24.2.10.68]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4CFC137B861 for ; Fri, 28 Apr 2000 00:07:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dr@dursec.com) Received: from kyxbot.zorg ([24.113.134.64]) by mail.rdc2.bc.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.02.17 201-229-119) with SMTP id <20000428070724.KHZM5540.mail.rdc2.bc.home.com@kyxbot.zorg>; Fri, 28 Apr 2000 00:07:24 -0700 From: Dragos Ruiu Organization: kyx.net To: Jonathan Chen , Darryl Williams Subject: Re: Network File System access in FreeBSD 3.3 Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2000 23:57:36 -0700 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.28] Content-Type: text/plain Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20000428052858.3755.qmail@web2902.mail.yahoo.com> <20000429174109.A11850@jonc.itouch.co.nz> In-Reply-To: <20000429174109.A11850@jonc.itouch.co.nz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <0004280005250B.00334@kyxbot.zorg> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 28 Apr 2000, Jonathan Chen wrote: > 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. "smbclient" is a standalone ftp like client that you can use from freebsd to access windows/smb shares with minimal setup. It is a part of the samba suite. It might be the fastest way to start. The samba documentation can be a very useful and informative read. www.samba.org samba is the name of the access software suite on FreeBSD and the protocol used to transfer the data is called SMB (Server Message Block) - MS calls it CIFS (Common Internet File System) too. cheers, --dr p.s. hobbit coined the term common insecurities fail scrutiny :-) -- dursec.com / kyx.net - we're from the future http://www.dursec.com learn kanga-foo from security experts: CanSecWest - May 10-12 Vancouver Speakers: Ron Gula/NSW, Ken Williams/E&Y, Marty Roesch/Hiverworld, Fyodor/insecure.org, RainForestPuppy/wiretrip.net, Theo de Raadt/OpenBSD Lance Spitzner/Sun, Fyodor Yarochkin/KALUG, Max Vision/whitehats.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message