From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 7 13:32:33 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ucsu.Colorado.EDU (ucsu.Colorado.EDU [128.138.129.83]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9B2B214C99 for ; Wed, 7 Jul 1999 13:32:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from doranj@ucsu.Colorado.EDU) Received: (from doranj@localhost) by ucsu.Colorado.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3/ITS-5.0/standard) id OAA00438; Wed, 7 Jul 1999 14:29:10 -0600 (MDT) From: Jonathon Doran Message-Id: <199907072029.OAA00438@ucsu.Colorado.EDU> Subject: Re: Win apps To: james.brian.chandler@ccmail.census.gov Date: Wed, 7 Jul 1999 14:29:09 -0600 (MDT) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <9907079313.AA931369400@smtp-gw1.census.gov> from "james.brian.chandler@ccmail.census.gov" at Jul 7, 99 01:36:20 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-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I have a question about the use of BSD. I am wanting to set up a network > server. I have several applications that run currently on WinNT. My question > is can I set up BSD as an application server and eliminate my NT server or do I > still have to keep it going. For example could an application written in VB6 be > stored and run from a BSD box. Yes, I do something similar myself. You can use Samba to export a FreeBSD filesystem to Windows clients. The clients can then run programs stored on the FreeBSD machine. Note that you'll need to have the appropriate DLLs installed on the clients (vbrunxxx for example). Jon Doran To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message