From owner-freebsd-questions Sun May 10 20:55:07 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA02348 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 10 May 1998 20:55:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA02343 for ; Sun, 10 May 1998 20:55:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id UAA02600; Sun, 10 May 1998 20:55:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Sun, 10 May 1998 20:55:05 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: kf7nn@kf7nn.com cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: internet drive? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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