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From: nsayer@quack.kfu.com (Nick Sayer)
Subject: Re: NetBEUI, FreeBSD to Win95, How?
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bsw827@freenet.mb.ca (Stephane Raimbault) writes:

>How would I go about seting up FreeBSD and Win95 to interact over
>network cards.  I read Samba is a program I would install to setup
>NetBEUI communications with FBSD and Win95.

Well, there's a bit of a distinction to be drawn.

Samba does Netbios stuff over IP. NetBEUI is a whole different
(ethernet) frame type.

> How would I go about
>configuring this.  I would most lickely connect PPP to my ISP and run
>/stand/sysinstall and download via FTP.  It would ask me some
>questions.  But I am NOT familiar with FreeBSD too much.

That's the crux of getting the one system installed with FreeBSD.
You will also want to fetch samba and install it.

On your win95 machine you'll need to install and configure IP and
the 'client for microsoft windows'. After you do that, if you
open the 'network neighborhood' you should see the Samba box
and opening it should show you any shares it has.

>Anyways I would appreciate any pointers for setting up the machines.
>The two machines have both NE2000 compatibles.  One machine Dual
>booting FreeBSD and Windows95 and the other Dual booting WindowsNT3.51
>and Windows95.  I would like to achieve possibly a login server or a
>file server with FreeBSD and Windows95.

For two machines that's a bit over the top. FreeBSD will default
to simply insisting that you use your unix username and password
when you mount a share. After that, of course, win95 will cache
the username/password pair for that share if you let it.

You can even use smbclient to look at your NT box (I don't
suppose anyone is working on a "mount_smb" -- mount
-t smb \\server\fs /mountpoint would be a good thing).

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