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Date:      Thu, 29 Aug 1996 09:37:07 PDT
From:      "Marty Leisner" <leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com>
To:        Matt Day <mday@artisoft.com>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: SAMBA 
Message-ID:  <9608291637.AA08771@gnu.mc.xerox.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 28 Aug 1996 17:33:22 PDT." <199608290033.RAA14743@sting.artisoft.com> 

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> If you want to mount Win95 drives from a FreeBSD system, please
> don't wait for CIFS - CIFS won't be ready for months, at least.
> Instead, port or write ksmbfs for FreeBSD!  The ksmbfs kernel module
> for Linux (in Samba's contributed section) already provides the
> capability to mount SMB volumes from Linux.  (Unfortunately, you
> can't NFS export stuff mounted by ksmbfs, due to limitations.)
> Getting ksmbfs on FreeBSD would also be a great way to help prepare
> FreeBSD for CIFS.
> 
> Download ksmbfs from:
> ftp://samba.anu.edu.au/pub/samba/contributed/ksmbfs-0.2.4.tgz
> 
> Matt Day <mday@artisoft.com>


I've seen flakiness nfs exporting (my sun nfs mounted to a linux box,
my linux box smbfs mounted to a pc).

Sometimes I can get at files on the pc directly on the sun, most of the time 
 I can't.

Also, (I haven't looked into this) smbfs writing is incredibly slow.

Pulling a file from a pc with samba is much, much faster than trying to push
it through smbfs.

smbfs on freebsd would be most welcome.

-- 
marty
leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com  
Member of the League for Programming Freedom





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