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From: gillham@andrews.edu (Andrew Gillham)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: SMB ( Was Re: NetBSD and Novell Netware )
Date: 1 Sep 1994 20:55:40 GMT
Organization: Andrews University
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Message-ID: <345f4c$agn@orion.cc.andrews.edu>
References: <340g3o$dgd@iserver.dolby.com> <341h4q$i93@hydra.convex.com> <342lg5$19@orion.cc.andrews.edu> <3444c2$r8a@hydra.convex.com>
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In article <3444c2$r8a@hydra.convex.com> grefen@convex.com (Stefan Grefen) writes:
>In article <342lg5$19@orion.cc.andrews.edu>,
>
>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

Actually, someone pointed out that someone is working on a "smbfs"
for Linux.  Obviously somebody would have to "port" it to *BSD, but
the work is started...  Yeah, my writing a filesystem! Ha! 
Sorry, I'm not a kernel hacker!  Not much of a hacker at all really.

-Andrew
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