From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 4 06:02:01 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id GAA00186 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 4 Aug 1997 06:02:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from Campino.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE (campino.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE [137.226.116.240]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id GAA00180 for ; Mon, 4 Aug 1997 06:01:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de (gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de [137.226.31.2]) by Campino.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE (RBI-Z-5/8.6.12) with ESMTP id PAA29745; Mon, 4 Aug 1997 15:02:41 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from kuku@localhost) by gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de (8.8.5/8.6.9) id PAA05638; Mon, 4 Aug 1997 15:04:46 +0200 (MEST) Message-ID: <19970804150445.34157@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de> Date: Mon, 4 Aug 1997 15:04:45 +0200 From: Christoph Kukulies To: Charlie Root Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Samba client question References: <199708040341.XAA28840@pent.vnet.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.75e In-Reply-To: <199708040341.XAA28840@pent.vnet.net>; from Charlie Root on Sun, Aug 03, 1997 at 11:41:32PM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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 -- --Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de