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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!news.caldera.com!enews.sgi.com!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.campus.mci.net!not-for-mail From: Anthony Jenkins <ajenkins@auburn.campus.mci.net> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Reading FreeBSD partition from DOS/Win. Date: Wed, 27 Nov 1996 15:04:16 -0600 Organization: CampusMCI Lines: 37 Message-ID: <329CACD0.57FE@auburn.campus.mci.net> References: <329AABFC.192@auburn.campus.mci.net> <57hj7g$2pj@anorak.utell.net> Reply-To: ajenkins@auburn.campus.mci.net NNTP-Posting-Host: s05-pm02.auburn.campus.mci.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (Win95; I) Brian Somers wrote: > > In article <329AABFC.192@auburn.campus.mci.net>, > Anthony Jenkins <ajenkins@auburn.campus.mci.net> writes: > : This project came to me because when first using FBSD my only access to > : the internet was from my Win95 half. I'd try to describe problems with > : my BSD half without access to any of the files on that system. I also > : wasn't able to tell if I'd already FTP'd a package/port for FBSD when > : getting new stuff via Windows. Conversely, I could easily read my MSDOS > : files from FBSD. For those of us gradually weaning ourselves from > : Windows I think this could be a useful set of tools (kinda like > : mtools(1)). Thanks in advance for any help! > > IMO, you're tackling things from the wrong side. Win95 (and most M$ > products) are terrible at providing server-type support. When you > connect to the net from a Win95 machine, that's the only thing allowed > access ! > > In my setup, I've got a back-end FreeBSD box and a front-end Win95 box > (and sometimes a laptop) connected to my network. The modem is connect > to the FreeBSD box. The freebsd box provides transparent 'net access to > the Win95 box so that the win95 box can use any 'net tools it wants although > nobody can connect to it from the outside (except ftp-data connections > and the like). You're right, in that accessing FreeBSD filesystem resources from another OS would be a lot easier if they were located in a separate box, but I think there's a need for those of us who have just one box w/ dual- or multi-OSs and just want to access data from one OS via another. Whether such a project is putting the cart before the horse (I can't think of the right cliche) or not, I've seen several posts here from people running multi-OSs because they already have MS-Win & want the UNIX they love without having to buy another machine. But as far as I know, there's currently no implementation whatsoever to tell anything about a FreeBSD partition filesystem from another OS on another partition. 'course, like the time I invested in ValueJet stocks, I could be wrong ;)