[ale] Win 95 long file names

[frank zamenski]

Then for a large LAN, as netbios/netbui is non-routable, it still has to
ride on top of tcp/ip, doesn't it?

( Sorry to waste ng bandwidth with a samba newbie query. )

-- fgz

At 07:56 AM 7/28/98 -0600, you wrote:
>Based on the question, I'd say that NFS was just a chosen name.  A quick
>why to use samba would be good...
>
>NFS is what unix boxes use for "sharing".  A well known and loved/hated
>  standard long before Windows heard of networking according to my
>  limited history knowledge, that Gates and friends couldn't handle 
>  implementing despite the specs being freely available...
>
>Windows and Novel (excuse my lack of novel knowledge) use that
>  netbios/nebui hack(not meant in a good way) for sharing filesystems
>  around.  Samba provides this type of sharing for Unix boxes to
>  share and map Windows filesystems.
>
>
>Robert
>
>Thus spake Mir Shafiqul Islam (mir at oisp.gsu.edu):
>
>> Umm.... NFS probably is not the way you should go with in this situation.
>> I use samba in a win95/NT environment to serve file and print shares.
>> Works great. It will support long file names and names with spaces.
>> 
>> If you must go with NFS then you may need to look at a commercial
>> solution.
>> 
>> 
>> > 
>> > I am puting together an argument to use Linux as a file and print
server and
>> > possibly a proxy server for my office, this would replace a Novel 4.1
file and
>> > print server that I have respociblity for and know little about.
>> > 
>> > I need to know if the NFS will support the long file names that
everyone here loves
>> > to use.
>> > 
>> > comments and/or   advice are requested.
>> > 
>> > 
>> 
>> 
>> -- 
>> Mir S Islam
>> Systems Administrator
>> Office of International Services and Programs
>> Georgia State University  
>> mir at oisp.gsu.edu
>
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