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From: gillham@andrews.edu (Andrew Gillham)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: NetBSD and Novell Netware
Date: 1 Sep 1994 20:58:08 GMT
Organization: Andrews University
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In article <342gp9$1pt@keltia.frmug.fr.net> roberto@hsc.fr.net (Ollivier Robert) writes:
>
>In article <340o0g$mvv@orion.cc.andrews.edu>,
>Andrew Gillham <gillham@andrews.edu> wrote:
>> What I would like to see is a SMB client/filesystem for Free Unix.
>> i.e. Able to directly mount NT/NTAS/WFW volumes.  Then you would
>> have access to any NT shared filesystem, and with the NT <-> Novell
>> gateway on NTAS... :-) :-)
>
>What about samba ?

Again, SAMBA is a server, not a client.  It has a ftp like client, but
does not provide the ability to mount a SMB filesystem on a unix
machine.

-Andrew
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