From owner-freebsd-isp Tue Apr 30 20:00:23 1996 Return-Path: owner-isp Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id UAA06895 for isp-outgoing; Tue, 30 Apr 1996 20:00:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from orion.webspan.net (root@orion.webspan.net [206.154.70.41]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id UAA06885 for ; Tue, 30 Apr 1996 20:00:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from scanner@localhost) by orion.webspan.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) id WAA02497; Tue, 30 Apr 1996 22:59:54 -0400 Date: Tue, 30 Apr 1996 22:59:54 -0400 (EDT) From: Scanner SOD To: Michael Dillon cc: Robin Melville , freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Desperate search for rpc.rlockd In-Reply-To: Message-ID: 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, 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. -- ===================================| Webspan Inc., ISP Division. FreeBSD 2.1.0 is available now! | Phone: 908-367-8030 ext. 126 -----------------------------------| 500 West Kennedy Blvd., Lakewood, NJ-08701 Turning PCs into Workstations | E-Mail: scanner@webspan.net ===================================| SysAdmin / Network Engineer / Consultant