From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Sep 13 21:04:04 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id VAA16525 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 13 Sep 1995 21:04:04 -0700 Received: from healer.com (healer-gw.Empire.Net [205.164.80.204]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id VAA16511 for ; Wed, 13 Sep 1995 21:03:59 -0700 Received: (from gryphon@localhost) by healer.com (8.6.11/8.6.9.1) id AAA03605; Thu, 14 Sep 1995 00:05:00 -0400 Date: Thu, 14 Sep 1995 00:05:00 -0400 From: Coranth Gryphon Message-Id: <199509140405.AAA03605@healer.com> To: gryphon@healer.com, noses@oink.rhein.de Subject: Re: smfs Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com, owensc@enc.edu, terry@lambert.org Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk From: noses@oink.rhein.de (Noses) > I love it when people are talking about PCs in general - I guess a PC > running FreeBSD DOES know about the "unix side of a transaction". But > a number of other operating systems aren't that blind either (e.g. Win NT, > Win 95 (getting it's user database from a Netware server) or even OS/2). OK. PC's running Windows. Which is what SMB was designed for and around. I wasn't talking about NT (and you don't really get security there unless you run NTFS partitions) nor OS/2 (which I ignore on general principals) or Netware (which doesn't talk SMB either). I was using "PC" in the general sense of the term, not translating it to "Intel-based hardware platform". -coranth ------------------------------------------+------------------------+ Coranth Gryphon | "Faith Manages." | | - Satai Delenn | Phone: 603-598-3440 Fax: 603-598-3430 +------------------------+ USMail: 11 Carver St, Nashua, NH 03060 Disclaimer: All these words are yours, except Europa...