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Date:      Tue, 30 Apr 1996 22:59:54 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Scanner SOD <scanner@webspan.net>
To:        Michael Dillon <michael@memra.com>
Cc:        Robin Melville <robmel@innotts.co.uk>, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Desperate search for rpc.rlockd
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.91.960430225923.24857B-100000@orion.webspan.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.93.960430161920.4330I-100000@sidhe.memra.com>

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On Tue, 30 Apr 1996, Michael Dillon wrote:

> 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
SAMBA is good but i have to agree its a BIT** to get working for WfW or 
it was for me 95 is MUCH easier.



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