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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!oleane!jussieu.fr!ensta!itesec!sidhe.frmug.fr.net!keltia.frmug.fr.net!not-for-mail From: roberto@keltia.freenix.fr (Ollivier Robert) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Linux Killer App (ksmbfs) Date: 29 Sep 1995 07:52:19 GMT Organization: A Happy FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT Usenet Site Lines: 16 Message-ID: <44g8jj$51q@keltia.freenix.fr> References: <44cma4$fv4@hole.sdsu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: keltia.freenix.fr Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In article <44cma4$fv4@hole.sdsu.edu>, Larry Riedel <larryr@saturn.sdsu.edu> wrote: > the ability to effectively mount a drive from a computer running Windows > NT. I think this is really neat, and preferable (for me) to running an > NFS server with NT. I would personally much prefer taking advantage of > the capability if it existed with FreeBSD than with Linux. FreeBSD already support this with Samba. The ksmbfs used by Linux is just Samba put into the kernel as a file-system. It is not integrated into FreeBSD because of the differences between Samba and FreeBSD's user credentials. [ Cc: to Larry ] -- Ollivier ROBERT -=- FreeBSD: The daemon is FREE! -=- roberto@freebsd.org -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- FreeBSD 2.x FAQ maintainer -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-