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Date:      Mon, 4 Aug 1997 15:04:45 +0200
From:      Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
To:        Charlie Root <root@pent.vnet.net>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Samba client question
Message-ID:  <19970804150445.34157@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
In-Reply-To: <199708040341.XAA28840@pent.vnet.net>; from Charlie Root <root@pent.vnet.net> on Sun, Aug 03, 1997 at 11:41:32PM -0400
References:  <199708040341.XAA28840@pent.vnet.net>

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On Sun, Aug 03, 1997 at 11:41:32PM -0400, Charlie Root wrote:
> I have samba installed and it is talking fine to my Win95 box.
> 
> My question is can you mount a Win95 share as a directory like
> you do NFS or a CDROM.  

Despite of using smbclient \\\\server\\service (and use it like ftp)
you can install smbfs. I don't know how reliable it is, though.

For doing backups only smbtar might be an alternative.

> 
> Under Win95 my unix shares can be used as a drive letter. 
> Can the equivelent be done under FreeBSD?
> 
> Adam W. Hawks
> awhawks@vnet.net

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--Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de



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