From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 26 17:15:37 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 545F316A4CE for ; Thu, 26 Feb 2004 17:15:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from mta4.wss.scd.yahoo.com (mta4.wss.scd.yahoo.com [66.218.85.35]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4AC7D43D1F for ; Thu, 26 Feb 2004 17:15:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bsdrockford@pastrytech.com) Received: from pastrytech.com (220.159.62.97) by mta4.wss.scd.yahoo.com (7.0.016) (authenticated as maupin@pastrytech.com) id 403A5DBF001E622B for freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org; Thu, 26 Feb 2004 17:15:36 -0800 Message-ID: <403E9B98.6030501@pastrytech.com> Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2004 10:21:28 +0900 From: R User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20031205 Thunderbird/0.4 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org References: <20040226200101.A496416A4D2@hub.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20040226200101.A496416A4D2@hub.freebsd.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: My experience X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: bsdrockford@pastrytech.com List-Id: Gathering place for new users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2004 01:15:37 -0000 Kjell B. wrote: > If you run XP Home, you can always set up Samba as a workgroup server and > file sharing works just fine. I believe it also works if Samba is setup as a > domain server but you won't get domain support. As always, read the > documentation, in this case the Samba documentation. I've set up Samba as a > workgroup server and it went like a breeze once I've read the Samba > documentation. I've had a lot more problems getting domain support to work > with XP Professional, but managed that too in the end. Really? Thanks for the information. I did read a good bit of the Samba instructions... but mainly relied on various "how to set up Samba on FreeBSD" type web pages, and the books I mentioned earlier. Following the instructions on those pages, and altering them slightly when things didn't work, didn't get me far... The actual amount of files I have to transfer back and forth are small, so for now ftp works well. And once I start moving over the html and python scripts, I'll be using http within Zope, so I don't think I'll need Samba, like I did when starting out. Plus it gives me some pleasure to skip out on Windows networking! If I was setting up a LAN file server and wanted access from my Windows laptop, things would be different, of course.