From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jun 5 20:49:40 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id UAA00678 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 5 Jun 1996 20:49:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from circle.net (demeter.circle.net [207.79.160.41]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id UAA00494 for ; Wed, 5 Jun 1996 20:47:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from troy@localhost) by circle.net (8.7.5/8.7.3) id XAA15772; Wed, 5 Jun 1996 23:20:22 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 5 Jun 1996 23:20:22 -0400 (EDT) From: Troy Arie Cobb To: Mark Mayo cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Samba, etc. In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 5 Jun 1996, Mark Mayo wrote: > > Just a quick question... > > anyone done/is working on a Samba FS? > > I'd love to be able to mount as local > > a drive on my NT machine (NFS is, of course, > > an option but who wants to pay for the > > NFS server for NT? blech). > > Huh? If you want to 'mount' a samba share ON the NT box, that's exectly > what samba does - it's a LanMan server and you can connect a samba share > from UNIX as a local drive on NT. > > What I want is the opposite - I want to be able to "mount" (as a > filesystem) a LanMan share from another machine, NT for example. I'd love > to be able to mount -t smd nt_machine:/bigdisk/share /mnt !!! I think it > would be > great to have an NFS client-like samba program, instead of smbclient > (ftp-like). I guess I mean compliment smbclient actually... > > Overall, the samba suite is superb! Unfortunately, I don't have the > skills or the time to write an NFS-like client for samba.. but it would > be super handy!! Ah, I suppose my first post wasn't clear. Mounting a LanMan-shared drive on my FreeBSD box is what I want. Yes, I'm already mounting my FreeBSD drives on my NT box, but I want the other direction too. A la NFS. I might tackle such a beast if there is no one else already working on it. However, it would definitely be a WHILE before I would have the time to do the project justice. As an aside, I could certainly avoid all this if there was a freely available NFS server for NT. I did a semi-extensive surf for one but came up nil. - troy Troy Arie Cobb troy@circle.net ------------------------------------------------------ | Circle Net, Inc. | global internet access | | http://www.circle.net | for western north carolina | | info@circle.net | and beyond... | | 704-254-9500 | | ------------------------------------------------------