From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 6 08:16:30 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id IAA26309 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 6 Mar 1997 08:16:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from xmission.xmission.com (softweyr@xmission.xmission.com [198.60.22.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id IAA26304 for ; Thu, 6 Mar 1997 08:16:27 -0800 (PST) Received: (from softweyr@localhost) by xmission.xmission.com (8.8.5/8.7.5) id JAA25990; Thu, 6 Mar 1997 09:13:11 -0700 (MST) From: Softweyr LLC Message-Id: <199703061613.JAA25990@xmission.xmission.com> Subject: Re: dos+freebsd network To: vitok@fasts.com (Victor Rotanov) Date: Thu, 6 Mar 1997 09:13:10 -0700 (MST) Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <331EE06D.2B32@fasts.com> from "Victor Rotanov" at Mar 6, 97 05:19:09 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Is there any way to share freebsd directories as dos drives and vice > versa? Sure, there are two: NFS and SMB. NFS is the classical UNIX approach to sharing files over a network; every system has the ability to share files (NFS server) or mount files from another system (NFS client). The code is included in FreeBSD, as it is with most UNIX systems, and works quite well. For DOS or Windows, you'll have to buy an NFS client, and NFS servers are not generally availble, except for WinNT. The other solution is SMB, also known as Microsoft LAN Manager or "Windows file sharing." Client and server are both included in Win95, WinNT, and Windows for Wankers. On the FreeBSD side, you'll need to install Samba from the packages distribution, which will let your FreeBSD machine become an SMB server. You can also share printers over the network. Samba includes printer sharing in both directions, i.e. UNIX->PC and PC->UNIX; most PC NFS solutions allow the PCs to use printers attached to the UNIX system. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC http://www.xmission.com/~softweyr softweyr@xmission.com