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From: grefen@convex.com (Stefan Grefen)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: SMB ( Was Re: NetBSD and Novell Netware )
Date: 1 Sep 1994 03:45:54 -0500
Organization: Engineering, Convex Computer Corporation, Richardson, Tx USA
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Message-ID: <3444c2$r8a@hydra.convex.com>
References: <340g3o$dgd@iserver.dolby.com> <340o0g$mvv@orion.cc.andrews.edu> <341h4q$i93@hydra.convex.com> <342lg5$19@orion.cc.andrews.edu>
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In article <342lg5$19@orion.cc.andrews.edu>,
Andrew Gillham <gillham@andrews.edu> wrote:
>In article <341h4q$i93@hydra.convex.com> grefen@convex.com (Stefan Grefen) writes:
[....]
>
>Nope, exactly backwards! SAMBA is a SMB server, not client. It does
>include a "client", but it is similar in functionality to 'ftp' while
>I would like to be able to do: mount -t smb ntas:/c /Net/ntas/c
>Which is indeed different! :-)
Ok, I haven't looked at the functionality of SAMBA (I don't use and I don't
plan to), but you have the client which gives you the information about
the protocol, and a virtual filesystem layer in the os.
Write a smb filesystem :-)))
You've all the sources, and some design challanges:
1) CR/LF conversion
2) Passwords
Regards
Stefan
>
>-Andrew
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