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Re: Win95 connected to my Debian box



On Mon, 27 Oct 1997, Bruce Perens wrote:

> Samba, the standard set of net servers, and perhaps a POP server are all

> SMBFS doesn't work as well as SMBCLIENT for sharing files from the 95
> system on the Debian machine. At times, it's wedged on me and I have had
> to remove and re-load its module to get it going again. However, it has
> worked just fine to back up the 95 system using the tape drive on the
> Debian system, which is my major application for it.

I'm using "rumba" instead of SMBFS. It's slower, apparently, but it's
working well for me. You sorta "nfs-mount" the Win95 drives. I got a
pre-release (or un-released) version from the author for a "truncate" bug
that is quite serious.

...RickM...



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