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From: iverson@cisco.com (Tim Iverson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Q: Shared modem on FreeBSD and Windows95
Date: 24 Aug 1996 02:11:19 GMT
Organization: cisco
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In article <321D452A.2781E494@FreeBSD.org>,
Jordan K. Hubbard <jkh@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
|Michiel de Rond wrote:
|> Sorry to change the subject, but are you able to use the FreeBSD file
|> system on your Windows95 machine... 'cause this is what i need to do,
|
|You need to read up on SAMBA. See it in the ports collection.
|/usr/ports/net/samba
|-- 
|- Jordan Hubbard
|  President, FreeBSD Project


I would strongly urge you to get it from the source (somewhere in OZ --
canberra?) instead of from the ports.  Not due to bugs (ports Samba *is* out
of date), but simply because there's quite a bit of documentation missing
from the ports version that you need in order to make Samba work.


- Tim Iverson
  iverson@lionheart.com