Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2003 23:01:37 -0500 From: Adam Stroud <adstro@stny.rr.com> To: Mike Jeays <mj001@rogers.com> Cc: Dave McCoy <mccoy@cet.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mounting a dos file system Message-ID: <200301102301.37815.adstro@stny.rr.com> In-Reply-To: <3E1F7538.6010009@rogers.com> References: <3E1F47FC.7000308@cet.com> <200301101913.49614.adstro@stny.rr.com> <3E1F7538.6010009@rogers.com>
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I thought that he was talking about mounting drives from distant machines > Adam Stroud wrote: > >Instal Samba. I have a silimar situation, and Samba works great foe m= e. > > > >>I have small network at home, my system running freebsd and two other > >>systems running windoze. I would like to be able to mount one of the > >>logical dos drives on one of the windoze systems so I can transfer fi= les > >>to it. Is it possible and how do I go about doing it? > >> > >>Any help is greatly appreciated. > >> > >> > >>To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > >>with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > You don't need Samba to mount a DOS partition on your FreeBSD > machine. All it needs is a command such as > "mount -t msdos /dev/ad1s1 /mnt" > where ad1s1 is the name of the partition holding the DOS file > system, and /mnt is a valid, empty directory. > > You need Samba if you want to work the other way around; ie > to read and write a FreeBSD filesystem from a Windows machine. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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