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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!solace!nntp.uio.no!news.cais.net!bofh.dot!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!newsserver.jvnc.net!newsreader.jvnc.net!news From: John Lucas <jlucas@uvi.edu> Subject: Re: Help with FREEBSD & modem Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Message-ID: <31A61983.167EB0E7@uvi.edu> Sender: news@tigger.jvnc.net (Zee News Genie) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: University of the Virgin Islands References: <1996May22.213817@clstac> <4o2oee$5e6@jraynard.demon.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Fri, 24 May 1996 20:18:11 GMT X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.01 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.1.0-RELEASE i386) Lines: 38 James Raynard wrote: > > In article <1996May22.213817@clstac>, > KEVIN T. NGUYEN - TU <tnguyentu@csupomona.edu> wrote: > >is tehre a way to connect my computer using a 28.8k + modem under > >FREEBSD? Please > > Yep, FreeBSD has PPP support built in. If you go to > http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/handbook.html, the section entitled > 'Setting up user PPP' has a step-by-step guide on how to set it up. > > >If i want to transfer file from the Win95 to the FREEBSD or vice > >versa, how would i go about doing it? > > Unfortunately, FreeBSD and Win95 cannot read each other's partitions, > so there isn't any way to do this, apart from copying files onto a DOS > floppy. Or copying over a network. > I have FreeBSD and Win95 sharing a drive and FreeBSD *can* mount the Win95 partition: mount -t msdos /dev/sd0s1 /mnt Don't expect to keep the long filenames though, only the mangled DOS 8.3 equivalents. I don't know how robust this is, so exercise care. As for the network solution, I use Samba, and SMB peer for Unix. Allows the FreeBSD host to act as a fileserver for Win95, WinNT, WfWG, and LAN manager clients. It is free. Long filenames are preserved this way. There is always NFS and FTP also. -- | John Lucas jlucas@uvi.edu | | Information Technology NIC Handle: JL423 | | University of the Virgin Islands (809) 693-1216 | | St. Thomas, VI 00802 http://www.uvi.edu/jlucas.html |