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From: brian@shift.utell.net (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.misc
Subject: Re: Network to win95 machines...
Date: 17 Jun 1997 09:53:06 GMT
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In article <33a56a63.3174884@news.softcom.net>,
gjosol@softcom.net (George Josol) writes:
> Can someone recommend a network topology between 4 win95 computers and
> a sparcstation 2 running Solaris 2.5.1 and a PC running freeBSD 2.2.2
> - would TCP/IP be the answer? My goal is to just share files between
> each system. thanks! george-
TCP/IP is the way to go. You may also want to look at the Samba
port in FreeBSD. It allows you to export NetBIOS (over TCP/IP)
shares to the windows boxes. I'm sure Samba would compile under
Slow^H^H^Holaris too.
--
Brian <brian@awfulhak.org> <brian@freebsd.org>
<http://www.awfulhak.org>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour !