[plug] smb

Grahame Bowland grahame at ucs.uwa.edu.au
Wed Nov 14 16:05:09 WST 2001


On Wed, 2001-11-14 at 15:33, Adrian Woodley wrote:
> Would it be possible to write a protocol driver with win32 to give it
> support for NFS and NIS? Then you could use these two open standards,
> rather than chase the MS tail all the time.
>   I realise that getting the Win32 networking API might be a bit tricky,
> but it would make it a lot easier to surplant NT as a file/logon server.
> Novell managed to do it and linux is far better than Novel (IMHO) :)

They are supported with their Unix integration product, whose name I
have forgotten. Probably so that Windows can sneak into old sun
installations or something.

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