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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!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: 31 Aug 1994 19:25:57 GMT Organization: Andrews University Lines: 25 Message-ID: <342lg5$19@orion.cc.andrews.edu> References: <340g3o$dgd@iserver.dolby.com> <340o0g$mvv@orion.cc.andrews.edu> <341h4q$i93@hydra.convex.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: edmund.cs.andrews.edu In article <341h4q$i93@hydra.convex.com> grefen@convex.com (Stefan Grefen) writes: > >In article <340o0g$mvv@orion.cc.andrews.edu>, >Andrew Gillham <gillham@andrews.edu> wrote: >[....] >> >>What I would like to see is a SMB client/filesystem for Free Unix. >>i.e. Able to directly mount NT/NTAS/WFW volumes. Then you would >>have access to any NT shared filesystem, and with the NT <-> Novell >>gateway on NTAS... :-) :-) > >Have look at samba (ask archie or look at comp.protocols.smb) I guess >that's what you need. 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! :-) -Andrew -- #!/bin/sh - ============================================== echo "Andrew Gillham gillham@andrews.edu" echo "Winix Hacker" #=========================================================