Samba or native Win32 file sharing (SMB/CIFS) are equally useless to Win32
clients that have to go over a sockets proxy. SMB/CIFS is completely
unusable in this case, which makes it less usable than ftp! So ANY client
that works via a sockets proxy would be better than nothing. To reiterate,
you cannot access SMB/CIFS shares via a sockets proxy from Windows. This is
ridiculous and should be fixed by MS in Windows. But at least a separate
ftp-like program would allow Windows clients to see SMB shares through a
sockets proxy server.
----- Original Message -----
From: Florian G. Pflug <fgp@fgp.priv.at>
To: <whitener_m@ociweb.com>; Multiple recipients of list
<samba@samba.org>
Sent: Sunday, March 21, 1999 2:38 PM
Subject: Re: Need Win32 Samba client
On Mon, Mar 22, 1999 at 07:07:56AM +1100, Miles Whitener
wrote:> Is there a Win32 client for Samba? I need something other than the built
in> support. The built in redirector cannot work via Socks and similar
proxies.
Hi
Why use samba/smb/cifs if you don?t use the built-in client of windows95/nt?
Greetings, Florian Pflug