From owner-freebsd-net Mon Jun 14 20:42:23 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from sasami.jurai.net (sasami.jurai.net [63.67.141.99]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6546015428 for ; Mon, 14 Jun 1999 20:42:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from winter@jurai.net) Received: from localhost (winter@localhost) by sasami.jurai.net (8.8.8/8.8.7) with ESMTP id XAA26778; Mon, 14 Jun 1999 23:41:55 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1999 23:41:55 -0400 (EDT) From: "Matthew N. Dodd" To: Boris Popov Cc: Bill Fumerola , Stan Brown , freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Where can I get ncplib ? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, 15 Jun 1999, Boris Popov wrote: > May be someone from core can determine if that expedient to include > ncplib in source tree ? NTFS seems to provide ample precedent no? What is needed is a willing committer. Asking -core to point out the slow committers wouldn't be a bad thing either. (slow as in the rest of them having the ability to evade you.) > > be enough of a carrot should we mention the lack of kernel SMB client > > support to Boris at some point in the future. > > Did you read my mind :)) About a month ago I'm start a work on > readonly (yet) smbfs. And to think the fools doubted my mind control lasers. 'Ware, 'ware, ye non-believers! (Actually, I have faith in Boris' ability to out-do himself when it comes to coding up random filesharing clients. I'm fully expecting that in a few years he'll present us with DECnet or Vines or something equally frightening. Not that I'm exagerating about the lasers.) So, where can we start testing this read only SMB client? :) Will this one be 'smblib'? -- | Matthew N. Dodd | '78 Datsun 280Z | '75 Volvo 164E | FreeBSD/NetBSD | | winter@jurai.net | 2 x '84 Volvo 245DL | ix86,sparc,pmax | | http://www.jurai.net/~winter | This Space For Rent | ISO8802.5 4ever | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message