Subject: Re: Parallel port connections
To: Bob Nestor <rnestor@augustmail.com>
From: Jared D. McNeill <jmcneill@invisible.yi.org>
List: current-users
Date: 03/19/2000 19:23:02
Samba builds on NetBSD, and is in pkgsrc as well.

Jared

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On Sun, 19 Mar 2000, Bob Nestor wrote:

> Does anyone have a suggestion/solution for this "problem":
> 
> Where I work we are permitted to bring personal computing equipment into 
> the office (Palm, laptops, etc) as long as they aren't connected to the 
> company's LAN.  We are however permitted to connect them to our company 
> supplied Desktops which are PCs running Windows-95/98/NT.  So my 
> co-workers have asked if there's any software available for NetBSD that 
> would allow a laptop running NetBSD to connect to the Desktop via 
> parallel or serial port for the purpose of doing disk sharing and/or file 
> transfers.  The best solution would be something like Samba that would 
> allow the NetBSD filesystems to be mounted on the Windows Desktop.  Does 
> something like this exist?  Does anyone have any other ideas for a 
> solution?
> 
> Thanks,
> -bob
>