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Rob Watkin (rob@hightide.net.au) wrote:
: Anthony Green wrote:
: > 
: > Hello All,
: > 
: >         Just a question with Linux and Win 95 machine on a network...
: > 
: > I have a Linux box and also a W95 box connected with 2 ether cards & cable
: > etc and i want to access the files on the Windows 95 machine while I am in
: > Linux and also access the Linux machines hard drive while i am in W95 (dunno
: > if this can be done .. the W95 -> linux one).
: > 
: >         I have heard of people using things like samba and other things etc,
: > but i would just like some input into what is best for this situation, and what
: > is required on both sides...
: > 
: >         My main objectives is to just read the disk partitions on both
: > machines, ie. mount the W95's drives from my linux box if possible? .. or
: > just setup a network and use ftp if it cant be done by mounting or an
: > equivelent..
: > agreen@uow.edu.au

: You Win95 box can connect to the Linux Samba mounted partitions just as
: though they were on another Win95 machine. The tools for accessing the
: Win95 drives from the Linux machine are ftp. This is a shame, it would
: be nice to be able to mount the Win95 drives a'la NFS.

	In theory you can. The kernel includes an SMB (Win95 et al file
sharing protocol) filesystem just as it includes an NFS filesystem.
You need a special mount utility, smbmount to use it. Unfortunately from
what I've seen, smbfs is as yet fairly buggy. You can also use smbclient,
which acts like an FTP client, but accesses SMB systems rather than FTP.

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