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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!paladin.american.edu!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!gumby!andrews-cc!gillham 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 Lines: 22 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> NNTP-Posting-Host: edmund.cs.andrews.edu 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 -- #!/bin/sh - ============================================== echo "Andrew Gillham gillham@andrews.edu" echo "Winix Hacker" #=========================================================