From owner-freebsd-isp Tue Apr 30 16:23:33 1996 Return-Path: owner-isp Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id QAA22289 for isp-outgoing; Tue, 30 Apr 1996 16:23:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from okjunc.junction.net (root@okjunc.junction.net [199.166.227.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id QAA22283 for ; Tue, 30 Apr 1996 16:23:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sidhe.memra.com (sidhe.memra.com [199.166.227.105]) by okjunc.junction.net (8.6.11/8.6.11) with SMTP id PAA08795; Tue, 30 Apr 1996 15:37:10 -0700 Date: Tue, 30 Apr 1996 16:20:19 -0700 (PDT) From: Michael Dillon To: Robin Melville cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Desperate search for rpc.rlockd In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Organization: Memra Software Inc. - Internet consulting MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-isp@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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