From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 10 18:35:17 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5D02816A400 for ; Tue, 10 Jul 2007 18:35:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from benfell@earth.parts-unknown.org) Received: from earth.parts-unknown.org (earth.parts-unknown.org [66.93.170.243]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2AA0713C448 for ; Tue, 10 Jul 2007 18:35:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from benfell@earth.parts-unknown.org) Received: (qmail 46622 invoked by uid 501); 10 Jul 2007 18:35:16 -0000 DomainKey-Status: no signature Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2007 11:35:16 -0700 From: David Benfell To: Garrett Cooper Message-ID: <20070710183516.GA90048@parts-unknown.org> Mail-Followup-To: Garrett Cooper , FreeBSD Mailing List References: <20070709004641.GA28114@thought.org> <20070709151811.75677f9d@localhost> <4691CB4E.5010606@tundraware.com> <20070709054958.GF69746@demeter.hydra> <4691D1DC.8090301@u.washington.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="k+w/mQv8wyuph6w0" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4691D1DC.8090301@u.washington.edu> X-gnupg-public-key: http://www.parts-unknown.org/gnupg/export-0DD1D1E3 "From: David Benfell " X-stardate: [-29]7873.84 X-moon: The Moon is Waning Crescent (18% of Full) User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: severely OT; re PUTTY [ssh] X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2007 18:35:17 -0000 --k+w/mQv8wyuph6w0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, 08 Jul 2007 23:12:44 -0700, Garrett Cooper wrote: > Chad Perrin wrote: >> On Mon, Jul 09, 2007 at 12:44:46AM -0500, Tim Daneliuk wrote: >> =20 >>> P.S. If anyone tells anyone else that I know this stuff about Windows >>> I will deny it loudly and come looking for you. I do not need >>> any more conversations that start with, "Oh, you're a computer >>> engineer - I have this problem with my/childrens'/wife's/dog's >>> Windows machine..." :) >>> =20 >>=20 >> "Oh, well that's your problem right there. Here, try FreeBSD, or maybe >> this MacOS X thing, instead. That should solve the problem." >>=20 >> Isn't that the right answer to all such questions? > Although ideal to use FreeBSD/OS X, many circumstances force people to= =20 > use Windows (for now..). > Another possible solution (since Tim brought up Windows -> BSD):=20 > automount with mount_smbfs should do the trick. Just having the Unix serv= er=20 > run Samba would do the trick though. Yeah, I like this trick. And it worked for a while. Beautifully, I should add, except when Windows did its stupid media preview thing that took forever while navigating through directories. Then that idiot IT team at my university cut it off, I assume through packet filtering rules. (I wish they'd focus on getting things working that they're supposed to be supplying instead.) --=20 David Benfell, LCP benfell@parts-unknown.org --- Resume available at http://www.parts-unknown.org/ NOTE: I sign all messages with GnuPG (0DD1D1E3). --k+w/mQv8wyuph6w0 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFGk9FkUd+dMw3R0eMRAvfLAJ9ls8FpbyOdEM0JkLrzCP9eO9SsmACbB3va Az3cBBAQoZUIyJYZSY1rPDM= =su63 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --k+w/mQv8wyuph6w0--