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From: Marco Molteni <molter@logic.it>
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Subject: Re: Mounting Remote Fat & NTFS partions in FreeBSD 2.2.2
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On Sat, 30 Aug 1997, Doug White wrote:

> On Fri, 29 Aug 1997, Jonathan E. Lyons wrote:
>
> > Is it possible to mount a remote Fat/NTFS partion in Freebsd
                              ^^^^^^
> > 2.2.2?  I've used samba to map BSD partions to my Win95/NT
> > machines, but I'm wondering can samba map a remote Fat/NTFS
> > volume under say /usr/home/?
>
> You can mount FAT (FAT16) partitions, though, by specifying the
> option '-t msdos' to the mount command.  For instance:
>
> mount -t msdos /dev/wd0s1 /mnt [..]

Jonathan asked for a remote FAT partition, not a local one ;-)

Jonathan, the opposite of Samba is... Rumba! No, I'm not joking, have a
look at www.freebsd.org/ports and search for "rumba".


Marco Molteni
Computer Science student at the Universita' degli studi di Milano, Italy.
UNIX _is_ user friendly.  It's just selective about who its friends are.