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From: roberto@keltia.freenix.fr (Ollivier Robert)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Linux Killer App (ksmbfs)
Date: 29 Sep 1995 07:52:19 GMT
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In article <44cma4$fv4@hole.sdsu.edu>,
Larry Riedel <larryr@saturn.sdsu.edu> wrote:
> the ability to effectively mount a drive from a computer running Windows
> NT.  I think this is really neat, and preferable (for me) to running an
> NFS server with NT.  I would personally much prefer taking advantage of
> the capability if it existed with FreeBSD than with Linux.

FreeBSD already support  this with Samba. The  ksmbfs used by Linux is just
Samba  put into the   kernel as a   file-system. It is not  integrated into
FreeBSD because   of  the differences  between  Samba  and  FreeBSD's  user
credentials. 

[ Cc: to Larry ]
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