From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 31 14:52:58 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 99E8937B401 for ; Fri, 31 Jan 2003 14:52:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from cypress.adhesivemedia.com (cypress.adhesivemedia.com [207.202.159.72]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0BA9143E4A for ; Fri, 31 Jan 2003 14:52:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from philip@adhesivemedia.com) Received: from cypress.adhesivemedia.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cypress.adhesivemedia.com (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id h0VMqmcr021353; Fri, 31 Jan 2003 14:52:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from philip@adhesivemedia.com) Received: from localhost (philip@localhost) by cypress.adhesivemedia.com (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) with ESMTP id h0VMqm9P021350; Fri, 31 Jan 2003 14:52:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from philip@adhesivemedia.com) X-Authentication-Warning: cypress.adhesivemedia.com: philip owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2003 14:52:48 -0800 (PST) From: Philip Hallstrom To: John Wilson Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Samba and XP? In-Reply-To: <010301c2c96c$f0eeada0$6401a8c0@john5tcrjerpxc> Message-ID: <20030131145158.Y14918-100000@cypress.adhesivemedia.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG If you don't want to install samba, find a windows ftp client that is easy to use... seems I've seen some that pretend to be hard drives on your desktop... can't remember the name, but the friend that had it seemed to like it. -philip On Fri, 31 Jan 2003, John Wilson wrote: > Good Day, > > I am currently seeking advice in regard to allowing an XP Home Edition > machine to have access to a FreeBSD mount. I've looked over Samba, and not > only have I seen references to XP's inability to join a 'domain > based-network', but also don't really like the idea of installing Samba as > it's a rather large package (relatively speaking) for what it simply does. > > My only other alternative, if I am correct, is trying to obtain an NFS > client for the XP machine and simply serve NFS mounts on the FBSD host. The > downside to this is the cost of the NFS clients for the XP machine. :) > > Are there any other alternatives available here? If not, which of the above > two 'solutions' would be best? I only have one BSD machine and one XP > machine, and I'd like to allow read/write access to a FBSD mount from the XP > machine. > > Any help or suggestions would be appreciated. > > - John > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message