From owner-freebsd-questions Sun May 13 22:42:43 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from femail18.sdc1.sfba.home.com (femail18.sdc1.sfba.home.com [24.0.95.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 717FB37B423 for ; Sun, 13 May 2001 22:42:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from vcardona@home.com) Received: from marx.marvic.chum ([24.17.229.11]) by femail18.sdc1.sfba.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.20 201-229-121-120-20010223) with ESMTP id <20010514054239.PSKB20888.femail18.sdc1.sfba.home.com@marx.marvic.chum>; Sun, 13 May 2001 22:42:39 -0700 Received: (from vcardona@localhost) by marx.marvic.chum (8.11.3/8.11.3) id f4E5gjP60899; Mon, 14 May 2001 00:42:45 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from vcardona) Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 00:42:45 -0500 From: "Victor R. Cardona" To: krisno pryosusilo Cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: FreeBSD, Linux & Msdos file sharing? Message-ID: <20010514004245.A60864@marx.marvic.chum> Mail-Followup-To: krisno pryosusilo , "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" References: <01051410214801.00962@adc-laptop> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <01051410214801.00962@adc-laptop>; from krisnop@ozemail.com.au on Mon, May 14, 2001 at 10:21:48AM +1000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 10:21:48AM +1000, krisno pryosusilo wrote: > I have read somewhere, of the ability for FreeBSD and Linux to mount a MSDOS > slice in read/write mode, however FreeBSD and Linux are only able to read > and not write. > Does this also mean that if I wish to make a FreeBSD file server, I can > interoperate fully with Windows, but at this stage I can't with Linux?. Both Linux and FreeBSD can mount FAT16 and FAT32 filesystems in read-write mode. I know that Linux can also mount NTFS filesystems in read-only mode. I do not know about FreeBSD. As far as file servers are concerned, you would probably use Samba to provide the SMB/CIFS support on the FreeBSD or Linux box. That would allow Windows machines to map network drives over to the server. HTH, -v -- Victor R. Cardona vcardona@home.com "Behold the keyboard of Kahless, the greatest Klingon code warrior that ever lived!" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message