Date: Wed, 21 Oct 1998 13:36:47 -0700 (PDT) From: Tom <tom@uniserve.com> To: slpalmer@email.com Cc: John Sconiers <jrs@enteract.com>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Riva TNT Patch (Re: Newbie (to development) would like to help Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9810211311550.18116-100000@shell.uniserve.ca> In-Reply-To: <9810211605510W.28561@webc02.globecomm.net>
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On Wed, 21 Oct 1998 slpalmer@email.com wrote: > Actualy, > I was just reading the question about > mounting a NT (SMB) Share like a NFS Mount. > Linux has a utility (smbmount) to do exactly > this. I looked in the -current ports and > could not find an existing port. I have not > yet looked at the source to smbmount, so I > don't know how involved it would be to port > it. If I feel it's doable though, I'm > prepared to start on it. > > I'll get the source to smbmount tonight > and look at it. > > Stephen L. Palmer > slpalmer@email.com smbmount and smbfs code is probably one of the most difficult projects you can attempt. You would have to understand filesystem operation in FreeBSD very well, and understand CIFS (SMB) very well too. The client side of CIFS is the most difficult because it requires kernel support. The server side (samba) is easy in comparison. FreeBSD users typically use Rhumba, which translates SMB to NFS, so it SMB shares can be mounted as if they were NFS. Tom To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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