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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mira.net.au!news.vbc.net!samba.rahul.net!rahul.net!a2i!news.PBI.net!news.mathworks.com!enews.sgi.com!decwrl!usenet.cisco.com!iverson From: iverson@cisco.com (Tim Iverson) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: SAMBA Date: 8 Aug 1996 01:42:15 GMT Organization: cisco Lines: 41 Message-ID: <4ubgln$88p@cronkite.cisco.com> References: <3205F448.446B9B3D@aristar.com> <320763E7.232C@www.play-hookey.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: rottweiler-ether.cisco.com In article <320763E7.232C@www.play-hookey.com>, Ken Bigelow <kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com> wrote: |Matthew A. Gessner wrote: |> I've had a little success with this: nmbd starts up when machines on the |> network go out and try to find names on the network. And so the Windows |> 95 explorer does show that the system is out there, but when I try to |> connect to it via Explorer it tells me it can't find the machine. |> |> What I need to know is how do I set up the Windows 95 machines to work |> with Samba? What protocols do I need and do I need to enable WINS? TCP/IP should be all that you need. You don't want WINS. Read over the Samba documentation carefully, and pay attention to such minor details as permission bits on the daemons and on the path to the daemons (this is what bit me in the setup). |printers and files as needed on each machine. However, you may not be |able to read thde Win95 machines from FreeBSD -- I don't know. Access of FreeBSD/Samba shares from W95 is transparent; ie. the Samba site looks just like any other W95 or NT system. However, the only way samba can reach out to other systems is via an ftp-like mechanism. I'm sure it's possible to write your own FreeBSD client that would provide transparent access to SMB shares, but I don't think anyone is working on that; perhaps because there's nothing on a W95 system that anyone running *BSD is interested in. ;-) |whatever), the Win95 machines can access it. But as far as I can tell |NFS won't run between Win95 and FreeBSD. The NFS client that comes with W95 doesn't work. SunSoft sells a more-or-less working client for about $500/copy. However, occasionally it will spew garbage into the middle of a file accessed across NFS (actual file is fine, it just looks bad remotely). These two facts are why I use Samba, which is both free and works. - Tim Iverson iverson@lionheart.com