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Date:      Tue, 30 Apr 1996 16:20:19 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Michael Dillon <michael@memra.com>
To:        Robin Melville <robmel@innotts.co.uk>
Cc:        freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Desperate search for rpc.rlockd
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSI.3.93.960430161920.4330I-100000@sidhe.memra.com>
In-Reply-To: <v01530500adac3b3f36e5@[194.176.128.120]>

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On Tue, 30 Apr 1996, Robin Melville wrote:

> We've been planning to use NFS on freeBSD boxes to allow access to selected Windows PC's
> 
> I've been trying to lay hands on a working implementation of the rlockd daemon. There is one amongst the ports collection but it's a dummy -- doesn't actually do any locking just always says "granted" to lock requests.
> 
> Is anyone aware of a such a port? 

I think this is the wrong approach. If you want to give Windows PC's
access to files on a FreeBSD server, just install SAMBA. This supports
both Windows for Workgroups and Windows 95 clients.

Michael Dillon                                    Voice: +1-604-546-8022
Memra Software Inc.                                 Fax: +1-604-546-3049
http://www.memra.com                             E-mail: michael@memra.com




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