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From: dkleinh@isotope.ps.uci.edu (Dirk Kleinhesselink)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Can FreeBSD mount Netbeui volumes?
Date: 9 May 96 17:14:24 GMT
Organization: University of California, Irvine
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Summary: Mounting Netbeui volumes under FreeBSD
Keywords: Mount, Netbeui
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In article:<postmaster-0905961001120001@206.65.200.5> wrote:

> There's an NT server in our network that I have access to. Can anyone tell
> me if it's possible to mount volumes on that server to my filesystem? I
> know that Samba is an Netbeui server, but it can't mount Netbeui volumes.

> Any help would be appreciated. Oh, by the way, putting an NFS service on
> the NT server is out of the question.

> Dave

As far as I know, it is not possible to "mount" NetBEUI shares under
FreeBSD (or Linux).  What you can do is to use the Samba client, smbclient,
to connect to NT shared directories and copy into and out of those directories.
Actually, it seems to me that the Samba server is better for the NT/95/WfW
user (more convenient) than the samba client is for the UN*X user.

Dirk