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From: mi@cs.bu.edu (Mikhail Teterin)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Linux Killer App (ksmbfs)
Date: 29 Sep 1995 16:28:02 GMT
Organization: Computer Science Department, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA
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Some time ago (29 Sep 1995 07:52:19 GMT) honorable Ollivier Robert, 
residing at roberto@keltia.freenix.fr wrote:

|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. 

Does that mean, there is no hope it will be in in the near future?
Running a personal machine (behind the IP-firewalls) I don't really care
too much about security. But having to use ftp-like client to access
company's file server (WinNT) annoys a whole lot )-:

	-mi