Date: Sat, 14 Jun 1997 09:44:41 +0200 From: Lutz Albers <lutz@muc.de> To: Bob Willcox <bob@luke.pmr.com> Cc: hackers list <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: PCNFS access? What do you do?? Message-ID: <v03102800afc7fbf2d391@[192.168.42.51]> In-Reply-To: <19970613182840.52202@luke.pmr.com>
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Bob Willcox wrote on 14.06.1997 PCNFS access? What do you do?? >What do you people do about allowing PCs to access filesystems via >NFS? (I have some Windows 95 users that want to access my FreeBSD's >filesystems using some NFS client program (sorry, I don't know its >name).) > >I note that there is a flag in rc.conf (I'm running 2.2.2R) called >"weak_mountd_authentication" that results in the "-n" flag being >passed to mountd. Also, there is ap package called pcnfsd that >performs NFS authentication and print requests. Which does one >use? Are they both neccessary or are they mutually exclusive? They are both neccessary. BTW, why don't you install SAMBA on the FreeBSD machine and let the Win95 users use that (called Microsoft Networking). The performance should be far higher and it's free :-) ciao lutz -- Lutz Albers, lutz@muc.de, pgp key available from <http://www.pgp.net>; Do not take life too seriously, you will never get out of it alive.
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