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To: mark@quickweb.com (Mark Mayo)
Date: Thu, 6 Jun 1996 12:55:20 -0700 (MST)
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> On Wed, 5 Jun 1996, Troy Arie Cobb 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).

[ ... ]

> 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!!

Not to mention a great way to unwittingly disable user-level security
for SMB servers using a FreeBSD machine as the hacking tool.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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