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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 00:39:27 GMT
Organization: Boston University
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Some time ago (9 Oct 1995 22:34:50 GMT) honorable Terry Lambert, 
residing at terry@cs.weber.edu wrote:

|I think something like ksmbfs is worthwhile only for single user
|desktop machines, where a single client credential universally
|applied to all FS services consumers on the platform is an
|acceptable thing.

|For the most part, I think both Linux and FreeBSD do *not* fall
|into this definition.

I am awfully sorry to raise my voice against the will of such a veteran,
but the only two FreeBSD machines I've seen (100% of them (-: ) do
fall into this definition. One I have at home, and the other one -- at
work, where everybody else is using WinNT. At home, I have about 7 users,
whom I trust (my wife and a few friends). At work -- I am the only user...

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