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Re: Samba for Cygwin


On Mon, Aug 20, 2001 at 04:10:22PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> All of your students seem to be rather confused.

Nope... not at all.  They want what Windows *doesn't* offer (which is
the whole point of Cygwin, no?).

> Why would they need samba on cygwin?  Do your students know what samba
> is?

Yes, it is a text-based way of enabling, defining, and controlling
SMB/CIFS shares that Windows is not capable of.


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