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From: mi@bu.edu (Mikhail Teterin)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Linux Killer App (ksmbfs)
Date: 11 Oct 1995 00:21:12 GMT
Organization: Boston University
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Some time ago (2 Oct 1995 20:00:19 GMT) honorable Terry Lambert, 
residing at terry@cs.weber.edu wrote:
|mi@cs.bu.edu (Mikhail Teterin) wrote:
|] It is probably my English. I'm very well aware of smbclient... It is
|] exactly what we _BOTH_ mean by `ftp-like clinet/app'. I said using it
|] annoys, and asked if there is a hope to `mount -t samba' in the near
|] future.

|A "mount" is a single connection.

|How do you propose to allow user level security with a "mount",
|since the only way the file server will support that is one
|connection per user?

|If you propose to use a single connection per machine, how do you
|propose to allow multiple users on a single machine?

Like M$ DOS partitions... Also, how about giving an OPTION to sacrifice
security for connectivity?

|If you want to write an SMBFS with the inherent limitations of
|a restricted model, feel free.  It would have less utility than
|an smbclient broken out into several command line utilties along
|the line of mtools. 

Sorry, I am not that big yet (-:

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