*BSD News Article 35631


Return to BSD News archive

Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!gumby!andrews-cc!gillham
From: gillham@andrews.edu (Andrew Gillham)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: SMB ( Was Re: NetBSD and Novell Netware )
Date: 31 Aug 1994 19:25:57 GMT
Organization: Andrews University
Lines: 25
Message-ID: <342lg5$19@orion.cc.andrews.edu>
References: <340g3o$dgd@iserver.dolby.com> <340o0g$mvv@orion.cc.andrews.edu> <341h4q$i93@hydra.convex.com>
NNTP-Posting-Host: edmund.cs.andrews.edu

In article <341h4q$i93@hydra.convex.com> grefen@convex.com (Stefan Grefen) writes:
>
>In article <340o0g$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... :-) :-)
>
>Have look at samba (ask archie or look at comp.protocols.smb) I guess
>that's what you need.

Nope, exactly backwards!  SAMBA is a SMB server, not client.  It does
include a "client", but it is similar in functionality to 'ftp' while
I would like to be able to do: mount -t smb ntas:/c /Net/ntas/c
Which is indeed different!  :-)

-Andrew
-- 
#!/bin/sh - ==============================================
echo "Andrew Gillham                 gillham@andrews.edu"
echo "Winix Hacker"
#=========================================================