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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Can FreeBSD mount Netbeui volumes?
Date: Fri, 10 May 1996 20:09:01 -0700
Organization: Me
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postmaster@mx.intermac.com 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.
Samba is not a NetBEUI server. Samba is an SMB server.
SMB can be transported of any transport supported by your system;
for Samba, this is typically TCP/IP. For NT, this is any NetBIOS
transport -- TCP/IP, NetBEUI, IPX, or other wire protocol that
can be used to encapsulate and transport SMB packets.
Samba comes with a utility to allow you to access SMB servers
over TCP/IP transport -- like Windows NT and Windows 95 boxes
with TCP/IP loaded. The utility is much like "FTP".
Linux supports mounting remote shares as a file system as well
-- with system level security, which is a big, big security
hole. FreeBSD doesn't , not because it isn't possible, but
because of the security considerations.
I've explained the whole security model issues quite recently,
so I'm not going to get into it again for a while.
You should use the SMB "FTP-like" clinet program that came with
Samba to access the NT server. This will maintain per user
access controls on the NT server shares and keep your security
intact.
Regards,
Terry Lambert
terry@lambert.org
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Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present
or previous employers.