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Subject: Re: Win95 - FreeBSD
To: binhdo@cs.ubc.ca (Binh Do)
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 1996 11:06:17 +0100 (MET)
Cc: danb@server.iadfw.net, questions@freebsd.org
In-Reply-To: <9601141906.ZM9608@columbia.cs.ubc.ca> from "Binh Do" at Jan 14, 96 07:06:11 pm
From: Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
Reply-To: Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
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> 
> On Jan 14,  1:20pm, Dan Baritchi wrote:
> > Subject: 
>  ": "Hi,
>  ": "
>  ": "I was wondering if FreeBSD 2.1 has the ability to communicate
>  ": "with my DOS drive. (actually not DOS, but WIN'95).
>  ": "
> Yes it has. When installing, remember to mount the DOS partition
> as e.g. /win95.
> 
>  ": "I don't necessarily need to run programs from the DOS drive,
>  ": "but I would like to be able to transfer files between them.
>  ": "
> As some people pointed out, currently you can communicate with win95 from BSD
> and you can read from there only. So you can copy files from win95 to BSD but
> not the other way.

You can do so using samba (Lanmager/TCP based). This works from the
BSD side as client as well (though - as explained earlier in this
list there is no way to mount a Win95 system into a BSD system).

(unless someone ports the linux smbfs - which is due to it's 
 non-statelessness not so attractive).

> 
>  ": "Thanks,
>  ": "
>  ": "Dan Baritchi
>  ": "dan@airmail.net
>  ": "danb@server.iadfw.net
>  ": "
> >-- End of excerpt from Dan Baritchi
> 
> 		
> 
> -- 
> 
> Binh Do
> Department Of Computer Science
> University Of BC, Canada
> 

--Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de