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From: Adam Stroud <adstro@stny.rr.com>
To: Mike Jeays <mj001@rogers.com>
Subject: Re: mounting a dos file system
Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2003 23:01:37 -0500
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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.
> >>
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> 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.


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