From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 11 7:43:38 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from informatix.i-clue.de (server.ms-agentur.de [62.153.134.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1301B37B617 for ; Fri, 11 May 2001 07:43:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from so@informatix.i-clue.de) Received: (from so@localhost) by informatix.i-clue.de (8.11.3/8.11.3) id f4BEiFo22830; Fri, 11 May 2001 16:44:15 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from so) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Christoph Sold Reply-To: so@i-clue.de Organization: i-clue GmbH To: Peter , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: smbfs vs. Samba Date: Fri, 11 May 2001 16:44:15 +0200 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01051116441504.17691@informatix.i-clue.de> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Friday 11 May 2001 16:44, Peter wrote: > Quick question: > I have a: > Win 95 box, and a FreeBSD box Networked. > They can ping each other so network is working fine. > > Now I want the Win95 box to be able to browse the files on the FreeBSD box > [The files I want it to browse are on a Fat32 partition mounted under FBSD] > > Now I looked at ports and was about to install Samba, when I seen > smbfs..... > > What exactly is smbfs? If I install that, will the win95 box be able to > 'map network drive' to my FBSD box? > > All I need is file sharing -- I dont' need print sharing / I don't need the > NT domain login thing etc.etc. -- Just plain simple realtime [mount / map > network drive] file sharing. > > If not smfs, anything besides Samba --What does everyone recommend. > smbfs is the exact opposite of samba: samba allows you to publish files from your unix box so Windoze can see it. smbfs can mount files from Winblows File Sharing on remote windoze boxes. HTH -Christoph Sold To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message