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From: Klaus Klein <kleink@layla.inka.de>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: Samba-FS ?
Date: 29 Apr 1997 00:11:54 +0200
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mparson@roloc.bl.org (Michael Parson) writes:

> In article <LUNDMAN.97Apr28154527@cranberry.co.uk>,
> LordLund <lundman@cranberry.co.uk> wrote:
>
> >Has anyone looked at porting Linsux' Samba-FS (NFS except talking to Samba
> >clients) for NetBSD yet? Anyone have any idea of whats involved?
> 
> I haven't tried porting the smbmount command yet, but the rest of
> the Samba package does compile w/o too much trouble.

Though Linux' smbfs emerged from the Samba sources, it's now
independent from that: it' a kernel subsystem, and `smbmount'
is just a user interface to it.

However, I know there's an effort of a writing an smbfs
implementation for NetBSD under way, but it's still pretty
basic these days.


-klaus