Hi there, I've got two questions, and I'll list them in order of importance. (1) Is there a way, or is there any research/development going into unearthing a way, to mount a samba filesystem like any other filesystem under UNIX? And (2), does anyone know of a good X filemanager? What I would really like to do is be able to mount a Samba directory or resource and treat it like any other directory. That way, I could get away from the FTP-like interface and be able to browse it with a graphical filemanager. Thanks, JP -- Joshua Pincus BS Computer Science, May '99 University of Rochester: jpincus@acm.org Jackson Laboratory: jsp@jax.org
Hi there,> > What Unix are you using?FreeBSD 2.2.7.> > Linux supports Samba shares being mounted as a file system. Other Unicies, > alas, aren't as easy to write support file systems for, and as such probably > don't include this support. Irix may get it very soon, however, as should > Solaris.I've heard of smbmount. I wonder if there is such a thing for FreeBSD? It might be in the 3.0 source tree. Thanks, JP --> > -----Original Message----- > From: Joshua Pincus [mailto:jp012d@uhura.cc.rochester.edu] > Sent: Monday, September 21, 1998 4:35 AM > To: Multiple recipients of list > Subject: x filemanager > > > Hi there, > > I've got two questions, and I'll list them in order of importance. (1) Is > there a way, or is there any research/development going into unearthing a > way, > to mount a samba filesystem like any other filesystem under UNIX? > > And (2), does anyone know of a good X filemanager? What I would really > like to do is be able to mount a Samba directory or resource and treat > it like any other directory. That way, I could get away from the FTP-like > interface and be able to browse it with a graphical filemanager. > > Thanks, > JP > > -- > Joshua Pincus > BS Computer Science, May '99 > University of Rochester: jpincus@acm.org > Jackson Laboratory: jsp@jax.org >-- Joshua Pincus BS Computer Science, May '99 University of Rochester: jpincus@acm.org Jackson Laboratory: jsp@jax.org
Joshua Pincus wrote:> > I've got two questions, and I'll list them in order of importance. (1) Is > there a way, or is there any research/development going into unearthing a way, > to mount a samba filesystem like any other filesystem under UNIX? >There are two ways of doing this that I know of. Linux - smbfs (see man pages for smbmount and smbumount) Others including Linux, Solaris, Irix, FreeBSD, AIX, etc. Sharity - http://www.obdev.at/Products/Sharity.html Chris -- Christopher Kranz | Systems Programmer | clk@CS.Princeton.EDU 35 Olden St., Room 211 | Computer Science Dept. | Voice: 609-258-1747 Princeton, NJ 08544-2087 | Princeton University | FAX: 609-258-1771 ==========================PGP V2.6.2 key available===================== "I may make you feel but I can't make you think" - Ian Anderson