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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!enews.sgi.com!news.sgi.com!howland.erols.net!cliffs.rs.itd.umich.edu!newsxfer2.itd.umich.edu!uunet!in2.uu.net!207.126.97.5!daver!Symiserver2.symantec.com!news From: tedm@agora.rdrop.com Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Win 95 and FreeBSD Networking Date: 30 Dec 1996 08:48:23 GMT Organization: Symantec Corp. Lines: 43 Message-ID: <5a7vkn$peu@Symiserver2.symantec.com> References: <sehari.851845795@eng3.iastate.edu> Reply-To: tedm@agora.rdrop.com NNTP-Posting-Host: shiva3.central.com X-Newsreader: IBM NewsReader/2 v1.2.5 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:33257 In <sehari.851845795@eng3.iastate.edu>, sehari@iastate.edu (Babak $ehari) writes: >--- >I do not have much expreince in networking area. But, I know about >NICs. Would any one like to write about how to network FreeBSD machine >and Win95 machines. Say How to set FreeBSD machine as a mail server for >all Win95 machines. > The short answer: There is no short answer! ;-) I did a 12-part series on this, available under Archives on http://www.computerbits.com in the Network Community column, Jan 96 through Dec 96. Mail under Win95 using a Unix mailserver is done using the POP3 protocol, in conjunction with the so-called "Internet Mail Transport" subsystem that is an add-in to the Microsoft Mail Exchange client. This transport is automatically installed when the user installs either Microsoft Internet Explorer (Microsoft's web browser) or Netscape Navigator version 3.0, and Microsoft Exchange Client is already installed and present. Or if you don't want to use Exchange, Eudora runs nicely under Win95. (both the freeware version and the commercial version) non-locking fileserving to Win95 clients can be done with Samba, or full fileserving can be done using NFS (you must buy a NFS client for each Win95 client you have, Samba will run with Win95 out of the box) Samba is installed on the Unix system, not on the clients. Microsoft will probably include NFS in Windows NT version 6, they are currently working on the RCP code for NT, this will ship with NT 5 if they can get the code done in time. (this directly from one of the NT product managers) The current rcp code in NT is not very good. It is highly unlikely that NFS will ever appear from Microsoft for Win95, so if you want to use Unix to serve files you might want to think now about tracking your users into NT as time passes. In a couple of years when NT has NFS you will be better off. Print serving can be done with Samba to Win95 clients, NT clients can use the lpr protocol. The printer can either be plugged into a parallel port on the Unix server, or it can be plugged into a print server such as an Intel NetPort, or if your really cheap you might be able to run NCSA telnet on an old XT, and plug the printer into the parallel port on that. The Unix machine would speak lpr to the printer in this case.