Date: Sun, 10 May 1998 20:55:05 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: kf7nn@kf7nn.com Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: internet drive? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980510205353.2508O-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.980510224427.kf7nn@kf7nn.com>
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On Sun, 10 May 1998 kf7nn@kf7nn.com wrote: > > while i am on a question run here is another one (probably easy) > > can I make my hard drive accessable to win95 clients over the internet > when they use filemanager and the command "connect network drive" IPX does not route over the Internet natively. You'll have to use a tunnel. Besides the latency/lag would be outrageous. > I have samba running now on my internal net and it works fine but would like > for some friends to be able to connect to it as if it were on their > network. You probably want to teach them how to use FTP then . ;) Or try NFS over TCP. Generally Internet lag is too much for sharing filesystems with any semblance of performance. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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